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Octomore 2015 Dramfool 6 Year Old Jim McEwan Signature Collection 4.3

Lot: 5074180

Octomore 2015 Dramfool 6 Year Old Jim McEwan Signature Collection 4.3

Winning Bid: £295

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Bruichladdich
Age: 
6 Year Old
Vintage: 
2015
Region: 
Islay
Bottler: 
Dramfool
Cask Type: 
first-fill ex-Bourbon
Bottled Strength: 
64.0%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Octomore 2015 Dramfool 6 Year Old Jim McEwan Signature Collection 4.3

Founded in 2015, Dramfool is a small independent bottling label created by Bruce Farquhar. Many of these releases have received high praise, and the collection features some interesting distilleries. 

Despite having come out of retirement to take on a new challenge at Ardnahoe distillery on Islay, his enduring legacy (for the time being at least) is his success in rejuvenating the neighbouring Bruichladdich when it re-opened in 2001. Born on the island, Jim began his career at Bowmore, starting out at the age of 15 as an apprentice cooper, he worked his way up to cellar master at the distillery's famous warehouses before moving to Glasgow at the age of 28 to train as a blender for parent company, Morrison Bowmore. After eight years, Jim returned to Islay at the request of Suntory to become its new distillery manager before ending his illustrious 38 year career as an ambassador for Islay's oldest working distillery. When the offer was made to manage the newly reopened Bruichladdich, Jim lept at the chance to return home to Islay. Over the next decade and a half, he helped transform the image of the distillery, breathing new life into its existing stock with a pioneering new wood policy, and reviving the historic tradition of peated single malt production by introducing the Port Charlotte and Octomore brands.

It was during his illustrious tenure at Bruichladdich that Jim acquired the private collection of casks that forms this exclusive Dramfool range. Each release will feature a single cask of each of the three Bruichladdich single malts.

This whisky was distilled in 2015 and aged in single first-fill ex-Bourbon cask #4366 for 6 years.

One of 176 bottles.

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