Ardbeg 19 Years Old The Duncan Taylor Single Cask

Ardbeg 19 Years Old The Duncan Taylor Single Cask

$1,665 AUD

53% ABV

70cl

 

This Ardbeg is as rare as they come as only 45 bottles were filled from cask no 347602, and most of them would have been consumed at the time of release.

Distilled in May 1994 and bottled in March 2014.

This product is located in the United Kingdom.

Distillery

Ardbeg Distillery

The renaissance of Ardbeg is one of the most pleasing success stories of the Scotch whisky industry in recent times. Ardbeg had enjoyed a very buoyant existence in the 19th century, despite its relative remoteness, as noted by Alfred Barnard when he visited it in 1885. Ardbeg had been mothballed in 1981 and remained so until 1989 when it reopened but by then under the ownership of Allied Distillers. They closed it in 1996 and sold it the following year to Glenmorangie plc.  Things then started to happen with the opening of a visitors’ centre in 1998, some deft marketing (including the launch of the Ardbeg Committee in 2000) and the introduction of some imaginative NAS expressions under a captivating new label.

Ardbeg, like Glenmorangie, has continued to flourish under French ownership following the acquisition of both by LVMH in 2004.