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Brora 30 Year Old 2004 Release

Lot: 307569

Brora 30 Year Old 2004 Release

Winning Bid: £1,600

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Brora
Age: 
30 Year Old
Vintage: 
N/A
Region: 
Highland
Bottler: 
Official
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
56.6%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Brora 30 Year Old 2004 Release

Brora distillery (originally known as Clynelish) was built by the Duke of Sutherland in 1819. Prized by blenders, the distillery found itself in the hands of DCL in 1925 when they acquired shareholders, Ainslie & Heilbron and John Walker & Sons. DCL closed the distillery in 1967 after opening a new, larger Clynelish next-door, but re-opened the first site, now renamed as Brora the following year. Bottlings of the whisky it produced between then and its second closure in 1983 are now increasingly sought after. It was never bottled officially as Brora during its years of operation, and the Rare Malts Selection in 1995 were the first distillery bottlings to bear the name. In 2017 it was announced that Diageo planned to re-open this formerly lost gem.

The Rare Malts Selection releases were there followed by an annual distillery bottling as part of the Diageo special releases each year. The first of these was released in 2002, launching an official Brora single malt brand for the first time, and the last one was bottled in 2017.

This was the third annual release, and is one of 3000.

This bottle is being sold from the Pat's Whisk(e)y private collection which, numbering in excess of 9,000 bottles and over 2,000 miniatures, is the single largest collection of whisky ever to be brought to auction. Pat's Whisk(e)y is the result of over fifteen years of passion and dedication to the goal of creating one of the most complete libraries of whisky and whiskey ever amassed by an individual collector. It contains bottles from over 150 different Scottish distilleries, as well as bourbon, rare Scotch releases from sought-after independent bottlers in Europe, and whisky from other distilleries across the globe. Whisky Auctioneer is delighted to have partnered with Pat's Whisk(e)y to offer this collection across a number of exclusive and spotlight auctions. For more information, please click here.

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