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Cambus 1989 SMWS 21 Year Old G8.1

Lot: 6140245

Cambus 1989 SMWS 21 Year Old G8.1

Winning Bid: £110

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Cambus
Age: 
21 year old
Vintage: 
1989
Region: 
Lowland
Bottler: 
SMWS
Cask Type: 
refill ex-Bourbon
Bottled Strength: 
61.2%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Cambus 1989 SMWS 21 Year Old G8.1

"Light, bright and agreeable"

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 whisky was distilled on June 1989 and laid to rest in a refill ex-Bourbon cask for 21 years.

Cambus distillery was built in 1806 by John Moubray, on the site of an old mill in Alloa, and initially distilled whisky from malted barley. Production swapped to grain thirty years later, which was fully modernised in 1851 by the installation of a coffey still. Cambus became a founding member of DCL in 1877, who bottled its single grain for the first time in 1906 during a battle with malt distillers over the use of the term "whisky." Occasional runs of distillery bottlings continued to appear during the 20th century, but the distillery was sadly closed down in 1993 during a mass reorganising of their portfolio by its owners, United Distillers. The site now houses a Diageo cooperage, opened in 2011

One of 272 bottles.

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