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Bottle Details
Aberlour 1974 First Cask 19 Year Old
An independent bottling of Aberlour distilled in 1974 and matured for 19 years. Drawn from cask number 11024. Bottle number 0094. Hand Filled.
James Fleming, son of a local tenant farmer built Aberlour Distillery in 1879 after having worked at Dailuiane, Carron for ten years. Producing whisky from 1880 onwards until his death at the age of 65 in 1895. Fleming is buried opposite the distillery in the village cemetery. Robert Thorne & Sons bought the distillery and ran it until 1921. In 1921, Robert Thorne & Sons Ltd. sold the distillery to W. H. Holt & Sons, a brewery near Manchester. In 1945 S. Campbell & Sons Ltd. bought the distillery. In 1975 Pernod Ricard acquired Campbell Distilleries, and they joined with Chivas Brothers in 2001 forming a portfolio of 14 single malt distilleries and 1 grain distillery in Scotland, and 2 gin distilleries in England. In 2002, a new, modernized visitor centre was opened.
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Aberlour
One of many Speyside distilleries in the Pernod Ricard portfolio and up until 2018 was part of just a select group of three from which they marketed single malts, alongside Glenlivet and Strathisla. The French multinational operate it through their Chivas Brothers Scotch whisky division.
First Cask (UK)
The First Cask label was a brand of independent bottlings of single malt and single grain Scotch whisky. It was owned and distributed by Direct Wines Ltd, and the casks and bottling were supplied by Signatory Vintage. It was introduced in 1992 and bottled intermittently for the next two decades.
Direct Wines
The Direct Wines group is one of the largest wine retailers in the world, with locations in the UK, Europe, US and Australia. It is notable in the whisky industry for its ownership of the First Cask brand of independent Scotch whisky bottlings and also markets a blended malt called Old Harry.
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