Glenugie – 1977 Celtic Heartlands 27 Year Old

This is a Glenugie single malt from the 1977 vintage, bottled at 27 years old for the Celtic Heartlands series. The series is a collaboration between the independent bottler Murray McDavid and Jim McEwan, who was then master distiller at Bruichladdich. Glenugie was a Highland distillery that mainly supplied malt for the Long John blends. It closed in 1983 after an oversupply of whisky in the 1980s and has since been dismantled. Its stock and brand name belong to Chivas Brothers, and official bottlings have been very few.