Tullibardine 10 Year Old Circa 2000’s
Bottle performance
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Lot number: 184-01803
Winning bid: £20
Alcohol has been produced on the site of Tullibardine distillery for over six centuries. A brewery was operational in 1488 when James IV [the King who famously asked Friar John Cor to make aqua vitae from eight bolls of malt in 1495] stopped to buy a barrel of ale after his coronation at Scone Palace on the outskirts of Perth. It could lay claim to be the oldest recorded ‘public’ brewery in Scotland.
In 1798, William & Henry Bannerman opened the first Tullibardine distillery, unfortunately it only ran for a year. In 1814, Andrew Bannerman (presumably a relative) tried again. This time it operated until 1837. By the 19th century, the town had a maltings and three breweries, the original one, Gleneagles Brewery, now owned by the Sharp family, the other two by the Eadie family. Both of Eadie’s plants closed by the turn of the 20th century, leaving Gleneagles to soldier on until 1927.
In 1949 the famous distillery designer William Delme-Evans bought the Gleneagles Brewery site and built a new Tullibardine distillery. It was the first to be built in Scotland since 1900. Tullibardine lay silent from 1994 until 2003, when a business consortium snapped it up. Their idea was to sell off some of the site as a retail park, using the money raised to get distilling up and running again.
In a similar fashion to Bruichladdich distillery, the new owners found that most of the stock had been filled into old, tired casks which though suitable for some aspects of blending, were not ideal for a stand-alone single malt brand. An extensive (and expensive) re-casking operation started along with the inevitable rash of ‘finished’ whiskies. The group sold their interests in 2011 to the French wine and spirit group, Picard Vins & Spiritueux which owns the Highland Queen and Muirhead’s brands and was looking for capacity…. The (failed) retail park venture has been bought back and a newly repackaged and reformulated range of single malts has been introduced.
Bottled: Early 2000’s
Age: 10 Years Old
40% ABV / 70cl
Please note slight rusting to tube.
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