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Brora 1978 SMWS 18 Year Old 61.4

Lot: 337127

Brora 1978 SMWS 18 Year Old 61.4

Winning Bid: £1,300
(Reserve not met) This lot currently has: 40 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Brora
Age: 
18 year old
Vintage: 
1978
Region: 
Highland
Bottler: 
SMWS
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
58.3%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Brora 1978 SMWS 18 Year Old 61.4

'A big personality'

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.

Society cask number 61 is Brora. This was distilled in 1978, this is the fourth ever bottling of Brora single malt from the SMWS. Aged in a single cask for 18 years, it was bottled in October 1996.

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. Official bottlings of Brora did not appear until 1995, long after its closure, but SMWS bottlings like this were produced from 1989.

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