AUCHENTOSHAN 1991 Blackadder Statement 24 Years Old Raw Cask
AUCHENTOSHAN 1991 Blackadder Statement 24 Years Old Raw Cask excellence from AUCHENTOSHAN Distillery, this RAW CASK bottle is from EDITION NUMBER 16 of the BLACKADDER STATEMENT are selected first and foremost for their excellent quality. A truly noble cask of single malt whisky is not just a matter of age and maturity. These qualities play their part but so does the art of good cask management, combined with regular nosing and appraisal of the spirit. As they say age is just a number. True quality in a whisky is like wisdom. Neither can be achieved without time and effort. Blackadder is exceedingly proud to have bottled this whisky, both for its rarity of type and for its exceptional quality. We hope you will savour and enjoy many rewarding drams from liquid masterpiece. Blackadder never chills or otherwise heavily filters its whiskies, nor is colour ever added to them and we always bottle in clear glass so that you can see the true colour of the spirit. This is how we have always bottled our whiskies and is how we always will. That is our promise to you.
Auchentoshan distillery is a single malt whisky distillery in the west of Scotland. The name Auchentoshan is from Gaelic Achadh an Oisein and translates as “corner of the field”. The distillery is also known as “Glasgow’s Malt Whisky” due to its proximity to Glasgow and “the breakfast whisky” due to its sweet and delicate nature. Auchentoshan is located at the foot of the Kilpatrick Hills on the outskirts of Clydebank in West Dunbartonshire near the Erskine Bridge. It is one of six malt whisky distilleries in the Scottish Lowlands along with Bladnoch, Glenkinchie and recently Daftmill Distillery, Annandale Distillery and Ailsa Bay Distillery.
Auchentoshan was built in 1800. After its foundation, it changed hands multiple times, and was bought by Eadie Cairns in 1969, who rebuilt it completely. Cairns sold Auchentoshan to Morrison Bowmore distillers in 1984. Suntory invested in Morrison Bowmore in 1989. In 1994, they acquired 100% of its holdings. In May 2014, Beam Inc. and Suntory Holdings Limited merged to create Beam Suntory Inc, who are now the owners of Auchentoshan and other Morrison Bowmore holdings.