Tullibardine – 1993 Cadenhead's Whisky Shops 26 Year Old - Vienna (70cl, 45.10%)

Tullibardine – 1993 Cadenhead's Whisky Shops 26 Year Old - Vienna is a single malt whisky from Tullibardine (Speyside). Aged 26 years, bottled at 45.10% ABV, 70cl. Matured in oloroso sherry hogshead finish. Tullibardine 1993 Cadenhead's 26 Year Old / Vienna Shop Wm. Cadenhead is Scotland’s oldest independent bottler, founded in 1842 by George Duncan. His brother William Cadenhead joined the company in 1952, taking over after George’s death in 1958. The company got into the whisky bottling business after 1904, when his nephew Robert Duthie took over, and since its sale to J&A Mitchell in 1972, Wm. Cadenhead has become on of the most sought after names in whisky. Its Authentic Collection is the flagship brand, but the portfolio of the company has expanded in recent years with labels like this. This is a single cask bottling of Tullibardine, produced in 2019 as part of the annual series of Cadenhead's Shop bottlings, each of which bear the image of one of the company's store locations around the world. Distilled in 1993, this was finished a fresh Oloroso cask as of November 2018. One of 276 bottles produced. Tullibardine distillery in Perthshire was built in 1949 and was quickly acquired by blending firm, Brodie Hepburn. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, the distillery came under ownership of Whyte & Mackay in 1993, who shut it down following year. In the preceding decades, its large production capacity had filled its even larger warehouses. Whyte & Mackay bottled some Tullibardine as a single malt, but also sold plenty of the stock to third party blenders and bottlers, resulting in some excellent independent releases. A Highland malt distillery built in 1949 by William Delmé-Evans and located in the Perthshire town of Blackford. It has mostly been owned by blending companies over the years and even today primarily provides fillings to the Highland Queen label, however single malt has always been available too.