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North British 1978 Duncan Taylor 26 Year Old

Lot: 6125150A

North British 1978 Duncan Taylor 26 Year Old

Winning Bid: £85

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Lot:
Distillery: 
North British
Age: 
26 Year Old
Vintage: 
1978
Region: 
Highland
Bottler: 
Duncan Taylor
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
55.1%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

North British 1978 Duncan Taylor 26 Year Old

Prior to 1885, Scottish blenders were only able to acquire grain whisky from DCL. This changed when the firms of John Crabbie, Andrew Usher, William Sanderson and John Watson collaborated to open the North British distillery in Edinburgh. Production began two years later on a single coffey still, and the distillery continued to grow, flourishing in the post-war period. In 1993 it was taken over by Lothian Distillers, a partnership between IDV and Robertson & Baxter, the modern iterations of which, Diageo and Edrington, retain a controlling stake in today. Occasional distillery bottlings have appeared over the years, but the majority of examples of its single grain come from independent labels like this.

A Rare Auld bottling of North British from Duncan Taylor.

Duncan Taylor was founded in Glasgow in 1938 as a cask broker and trading company. Its modern history began in 2001 when a former Glendronach employee, Euan Shand, purchased the firm and moved it to Huntly in Aberdeenshire, using the impressive cask portfolio it has amassed over the 20th century to become one of the premier independent bottlers in Scotland.

Distilled July 1978 and bottled January 2005, this 26 year old whisky was bottled from cask #239967 yielding 170 bottles.

 

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