Bailie Nicol Jarvie
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Lot number: 171-01524
Winning bid: £95
Bailie Nicol Jarvie was a blend originally created in the late 19th century by wine merchant Nicol Anderson, and later produced by Macdonald & Muir (the original name for The Glenmorangie Company) which claimed it had the ‘highest malt content of any blended Scotch whisky’. Anderson named the blend after one of the central characters in Walter Scott’s 1819 novel, Rob Roy – a patriotic Glaswegian magistrate and merchant and example of the Lowland gentry.
The composition of the blend was changed from the original recipe due to market forces. Only eight single malts from the Highlands (including Glenmorangie), Islay and Speyside (including Glen Moray) are blended together with grain whisky from the Girvan distillery in Ayrshire.
In comparison, many blended whiskies contain between 20-40 single malts. The minimum maturation time in a cask is six years and the final BNJ whisky contains 60% single malt and 40% grain whisky.
The brand was relaunched in 1994 and by 2014, the product was discontinued and is now becoming harder to source.
40% ABV / 70cl
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