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Placing a Maximum Bid
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Incremental Bidding Explained
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Bottle Details
Inchgower 1997 Thompson Brothers 27 Year Old
Inchgower was built in 1871 by Alexander Wilson, using equipment rescued from the disused Tochineal distillery nearby. When his family went bankrupt, the distillery was bought by the town council, who sold it to Arthur Bell in 1937. As you would expect it has been a key constituent in the Bell's blend ever since. As with Blair Athol and Dufftown, Arthur Bell & Sons took an early interest in bottling its single malt, with official releases appearing from the 1970s. These disappeared when Guinness bought Bell's in 1985 however, and it was not until United Distillers launched the Flora & Fauna brand in 1991 that the former Bell's stable would receive distillery bottlings again. Nowadays important to the Johnnie Walker blend too, this is the only permanent release, and other distillery bottlings of Inchgower are rare.
This Inchgower was distilled in August 1997 and matured for 27 years in two refill hogsheads before being bottled by Thompson Brothers in November 2024.
One of only 406 bottles.
Dornoch Distillery Company
A distiller and independent bottler, founded in 2013 as the Black Isle Whisky Company in 2013 by Simon and Philip Thompson. It opened the Dornoch distillery in 2016, producing its own single malt whisky and gin which it markets using the Thompson Bros brand name.
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