Unidentified bottle

[supersizestew]

Hi everybody,
New to this and hoping for some help. Found a dusty bottle in my attic of 16 year old Auchenlone Scotch Whisky (Single Speyside Malt). I have looked online and cant find any information at all about it. It was distilled in 18/3/76 cask no 1828 bottle no 233 which makes me think it was a limited run and a little rare. Does anyone have any info on it? Bit of a whisky rookie.

Thanks!

[opelfruit]

With whisky you have 2 types of bottlings (in general);

*Official Bottlings
*Independant Bottlings


OBs are ones that are bottled by the distillery that has distilled the spirit and matured the whisky. They are usually big vattings of loads of casks to meet demand of consumers and they try to find continuity between the large batches of bottles for specific expressions....say their 12 year old.

IBs are where an independant company has bottled whisky from a distillery under their own label. Often this is done by bottling a single cask of whisky from a particular distilery.


What you have here is an Independent Bottling of Glenburgie. It's a single cask which is why the numbers look limited. It was bottled under the label of "Auchenlone" by The Whisky Connoisseur.


In terms of value, single cask bottles from IBs like this are not hugely sought after, so it's not likely to gain you big bucks. The cask may be good, it may be average or it may be pants....you wont know until you drink it. However, it's old, so it's the change to try a mid-aged old style bottling from the 70's.....which is a nice treat.
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