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Aultmore SMWS 15 Year Old 73.85 / 28 Queen Street Exclusive

Lot: 249701

Aultmore SMWS 15 Year Old 73.85 / 28 Queen Street Exclusive

Winning Bid: £80

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Aultmore
Age: 
15 Year Old
Vintage: 
N/A
Region: 
Speyside
Bottler: 
Scotch Malt Whisky Society
Cask Type: 
n/a
Bottled Strength: 
55.3%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Aultmore SMWS 15 Year Old 73.85 / 28 Queen Street Exclusive

"Opening grandma's cake tin"

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) was founded in 1983 by a group of friends lead by tax accountant Phillip ‘Pip’ Hills as a private members club. The concept behind the society was to source casks from all over Scotland which would then be bottled and made available exclusively to its members. Perhaps the most famous feature of these bottles are the unique codes. Each distillery is represented by a different number and the following digits indicate that particular release. That same year, the SMWS set up its first location in Leith’s Vault buildings in Edinburgh where it still stands today.

Originally built as a brewery, Glen Moray was converted into a whisky distillery during the market boom of the late 19th century. The subsequent slump saw it mothballed, before being bought by MacDonald & Muir in 1923, who later became the Glenmorangie Company in 1996. In the latter days of their ownership it was sadly treated as their budget single malt, but it has always been a high quality whisky, and its reputation it is now beginning to recover under the ownership of La Martiniquaise, who took over in 2008. Thankfully the distillery's excellent single malt has always been treated with the reverence it deserves by independent labels like this.

This whisky has been aged for 15 years and was released exclusively for the Queen Street branch of the SMWS in Edinburgh.

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