Tamdhu 1963 50 Year Old (Bottled 2017) Single Malt Whisky w/box 700ml

This incredible single malt scotch whisky was drawn from a single first-fill European oak Sherry butt which was filled in November 1963​ and bottled 50 years later, making this the oldest ever Tamdhu to be released!

Tamdhu is always matured in sherry casks, the rarest of which can often at best hold the liquid for 25 years. To have yielded 100 bottles after 50 years, cask #4678 must have been something truly special, and the whisky it produced equally so.

One of only 100 bottles produced, bottled in a spectacular and imposing presentation from pre-eminant English crystal makers Royal Brierley, designed by artist and sculptor Katy Holford who's CV also boasts commissions from Wedgwood and Perrier Jouet. This bottle is as much a work of art as the whisky craftsmanship it contains. To top it off, the bottle is sealed with a sterling silver stopper from Royal Warrented luxury jewelers Hamilton & Inches.

Lot comes complete with a 5cl miniature.

Colour: Deep hues of rich mahogany.
Nose: Forest fruits, elegant oak and orange depths, with underlying rosehip, dark chocolate and marzipan.
Palate: Cloves, liquorice, spresso and baked apples, also revelas banana, black pepper and roasted almond.
Finish: Long lingering of ginger, cocoa, walnuts and maple syrup.

Tamdhu distillery is a single malt Scotch Speyside whisky distillery, located in the town of Knockando in Banffshire, Scotland. Tamdhu comes from Gaelic for little dark hill.
The distillery was founded in 1896 by a group of assemblers, wishing to engage in the production of their own whisky. The first malt whisky was distilled and casked in 1897. It quickly passed on into the hands of Highland Distillers. The history of the distillery was fairly quiet, without changing owners, but still marked by a long dormancy between 1927 and 1947.
Unlike its neighbors the Tamdhu distillery has no roof-shaped pagoda above its malt furnaces. This is one of the last distilleries to malt all of its barley on the spot by a mechanical saladin.
The Tamdhu whisky is almost completely used for the production of blended whiskies, such as The Famous Grouse, J & B and Cutty Sark. Tamdhu's traditional single malt bottling does not mention its age, but a recent addition to its product line includes a 10-year-old distillery bottling. Other single malts are sold by independent bottlers.
It was announced that as of April 2010, the Tamdhu Distillery, belonging to the Highland Distillers subsidiary of the Edrington Group, was being closed and the plant shuttered. It was then sold to Ian MacLeod Distillers in June 2011, who recommenced production of single malt in May 2013.