Blackadder Glen Albyn 1974 27 Year Old Cask Strength 59.8% Cask # 1598

Blackadder Glen Albyn 1974 27 Year Old Cask Strength 59.8% Cask # 1598
One of three closed distilleries in Inverness, Glen Albyn was rarely seen as a single malt with the majority of its output being used in blends. The distillery was one of many which closed its doors in 1983. Its owners in the very early 1970s, Mackinlay’s, were early fans of single malt bottlings though, and did produce a handful of official releases. Little was to follow when DCL (now Diageo) took control in 1972, with the next distillery bottling not appearing until the Rare Malts Selection was released over 20 years later. Most of the opportunities to sample this lost distillery therefore come in the form of independent labels like this.
We don’t see many bottles from Glen Albyn, which closed in 1983.
Blackadder International were founded in 1995 by whisky writers, Robin Tucek and John Lamond, authors of the 1987 publication, The Malt Whisky File: The Essential Guide for the Malt Whisky Connoisseur. The company has gained great affection from whisky enthusiasts for its Raw Cask series, which is deliberately drawn un-filtered from the cask so as to retain all cask sediment along with any natural oils and fats. The company is credited with a key role in the popularisation of cask strength whiskies since its inception.
This whisky was distilled on 19th April 1974 and laid to rest in single hogshead #1599 before being bottled in September 2001. One of 260 bottles.