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Ben Nevis 1970 Jack Wiebers 43 Year Old Single Blend / Old Train Line

Lot: 6181835

Ben Nevis 1970 Jack Wiebers 43 Year Old Single Blend / Old Train Line

Winning Bid: £490

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Ben Nevis
Age: 
43 Year Old
Vintage: 
1970
Region: 
Highland
Bottler: 
Jack Wiebers
Cask Type: 
n/a
Bottled Strength: 
44.6%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Ben Nevis 1970 Jack Wiebers 43 Year Old Single Blend / Old Train Line

This was bottled by Lars-Goran Wiebers, aka "Jack." He is the proprietor of the renowned Jack Wiebers Whisky World retailer in Germany, established in 1996. Since then has released a number of respected independent bottlings under labels such as the Old Train Line, Gentle Noses, The Cross Hill and Auld Distillers Alliance.

A cask strength release, this Ben Nevis was bottled as part of the Old Train Line series in 2014.

Ben Nevis distillery was built by "Long" John MacDonald in 1825, and was so popular by the end of the 19th century that at one point the estate employed over 200 people. After a series of closure and re-openings at the beginning of the 20th, it was eventually bought by former Canadian bootlegger, Joseph Hobbs. He installed a coffey still there in 1955, making Ben Nevis Scotland's first dual-operation distillery, and began to blend its malt and grain before filling it to cask. Sporadic closures again followed Hobb's death, with stability finally ensured in 1989 when it was bought by long-term customers, Nikka Whisky of Japan. Its turbulent history means there were few distillery bottlings until the launch of the 10 year old single malt in 1996, but casks had long been making their way to independent labels, and many of them are very highly praised.

This rare single blend is one of the Hobbs-era pre-casking malt and grain vattings.

 

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