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Bunnahabhain 1966 Single Cask 35 Year Old #4379 / Feis Ile 2002

Lot: 325852

Bunnahabhain 1966 Single Cask 35 Year Old #4379 / Feis Ile 2002

Winning Bid: £1,707

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Bunnahabhain
Age: 
35 Year Old
Vintage: 
1966
Region: 
Islay
Bottler: 
Official
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
46.1%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Bunnahabhain 1966 Single Cask 35 Year Old #4379 / Feis Ile 2002

An austere piece of Victorian architecture on the north-east coast of Islay, Bunnahabhain is a relative outsider on the island, traditionally known for producing an un-peated single malt. The majority of this was used for blending, as was its initial intended purpose. The distillery was shut for 2 years in 1982 following the market downturn of the period, and despite being revived at low production, it was eventually officially bottled as a single malt later that decade, with the self-deprecating tag-line, "the un-pronounceable malt."

A limted edition release, this was distilled in May 1966 and matured in single cask #4379 for 35 years unitl bottled in March 2002. 

One of only 401 bottles produced for the Feis Ile on Islay.

Feis Ile, also known as the Islay Festival of Music and Malt had humble beginnings. It traces it origins back to 1985 and the establishment of The Islay Festival Association after it was realised that an event celebrating Gaelic, music and culture would drive tourism to the island. The inaugural event was rtwo weeks of music, drama and workshops with ceilidhs, concerts and dances in the evening. The first whisky tasting took place as a festival event in 1990, and ten years later the island's distilleries began to be directly involved, organising their annual open days to coincide with it. Today it is one of the biggest events on the whisky calendar, annually drawing hundreds of revellers, and turning out an increasingly sought-after batch of limited edition whiskies like this.

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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