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#Caledonian 1987 Cadenhead's Closed Distilleries 33 Year Old
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Bottle Details
Caledonian 1987 Cadenhead's 33 Year Old
Wm. Cadenhead is Scotland’s oldest independent bottler, founded in 1842 by George Duncan. His brother William Cadenhead joined the company in 1952, taking over after George’s death in 1958. The company got into the whisky bottling business after 1904, when his nephew Robert Duthie took over, and since its sale to J&A Mitchell in 1972, Wm. Cadenhead has become on of the most sought after names in whisky. Its Authentic Collection is the flagship brand, but the portfolio of the company has expanded in recent years with labels like this.
This grain whisky was distilled in 1987 and aged in a single ex-Bourbon cask for 33 years before being bottled in 2020.
Caledonian is a lost grain distillery, built in Edinburgh by Graham Menzies & Co. It operated a single column still, once described by James Grant as the \"greatest in Scotland,\" and later two pot stills which produced an Irish-style grain whisky. It became the seventh member of DCL in 1884. When DCL merged with Guinness in 1986 to form United Distillers, the company's enormous portfolio of distilleries required streamlining, and Caledonian was one of those that did not survive the cull, shut down for good in 1988. It has only twice been officially bottled as a single grain, once in its lifetime as a commemorative bottling for the 1986 Commonwealth games in its home city, and later under The Cally brand by Diageo. Thankfully, releases like this have appeared over the decades under independent labels.
One of 192 bottles.
Distillery
Distillery status
Closed
Age
33 year old
Vintage
1987
Production Type
Single grain
Cask type
Bourbon hogshead
Region
Lowland
Bottle count
192
Distillery
Caledonian
A former Scottish grain distillery that was located near the Haymarket area of Edinburgh. Opened in 1855, it became the seventh member of the Distillers Company when it joined in 1884, and remained part of the group until 1988 when it was shut down by its successor, United Distillers.
Founded
1855
Production type
Single grain
Brand
Cadenhead's Closed Distilleries
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Founded
2006
Production type
Single grain,
Single malt
Company
William Cadenhead
The oldest independent bottling company in Scotland and one of the earliest and foremost advocates for the single malt category, launching its iconic "dumpy" bottlings in 1977. Its flagship brand is the Authentic Collection, supported by a prolific outturn of additional releases each month.
Founded
1842
Company type
Independent Bottler,
Retailer
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