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History In A Bottle Day 9: Glenglassaugh 1972 KWM Sherry Cask 39 Yr

Posted on December 9, 2022

This post is Bonus Content. It has information on one of the KWM Cask bottles that are featured on the back of our 2022 KWM Whisky Calendar box. You can find the blog post for the mini bottle for Day Nine of our Whisky Calendar here.

by Andrew

In 2006 Stuart Nickerson, a former Distillery Manager from William Grant & Sons, purchased the Glenglassaugh Distillery at the head of a consortium. What is so unusual about the purchase, is that the distillery had been closed for close to 20 years, and they were only able to acquire about 400 casks as a part of the purchase. Their first core range consisted of 21, 30, and 40-year-old whiskies, because they didn’t have anything younger. And the funniest part about those declared age statements is that the whiskies were all at least a couple of years older than the declared age statements. A marketing company had talked them into setting the ages where they did, rather than putting less typical age numbers on the bottles.

We were fortunate to have the opportunity to bottle one of the 400 pre-closure casks of Glenglassaugh in 2012. We selected a 39-year-old Sherry Finished single malt, originally laid down in 1972. Fruity and tropical, the whisky was well regarded, it is still rocking a 92.4 point score on Whiskybase, but at $700, it was a hard-ish sell for the time. This was less than a year behind our stunning GlenDronach 1972, and almost double the price. I managed to tuck one aside at the time but have long wished I had kept two.

Glenglassaugh 1972 KWM Sherry Cask 39 Yr