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Knockdhu 1990 SMWS 30 Year Old 115.17

Lot: 307710

Knockdhu 1990 SMWS 30 Year Old 115.17

Winning Bid: £160
(Reserve not met) This lot currently has: 15 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Knochdhu
Age: 
30 Year Old
Vintage: 
1990
Region: 
Highland
Bottler: 
SMWS
Cask Type: 
refill ex-Bourbon barrel
Bottled Strength: 
43.2%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Knockdhu 1990 SMWS 30 Year Old 115.17

'Flower meadows and lemon groves'

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.

This is a rare SMWS Knockdhu. It was distilled on 15th Februry 1990 and matured in a refill ex-bourbon barrel for 30 years. One of 161 bottles.

Knockdhu could be considered by many to be the genesis of what is now the whisky giant, Diageo. Then known as DCL, a consortium of Lowland grain distillers, they built Knockdhu distillery in their first foray into malt whisky distilling in 1893. They operated the distillery until 1983 when, like much of their portfolio, they closed it down due to an oversupply resulting from the Scotch market downturn of the period. The distillery was bought and re-opened by Inver House in 1988, who quickly turned out the first official single malt bottlings. The product was swiftly rebranded as AnCnoc in 1993 however, purportedly to avoid confusion with the similarly named Knockando. Independent releases like this are still labelled with the distillery name however.

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