Cardhu 1974 Signatory Vintage 25 Year Old / Millennium Edition

A single cask bottling from a legendary batch of sherry cask Cardhu from Signatory Vintage. Cardhu is the Speyside home of Johnnie Walker, and the distillery contributes much of its production to the world famous blend. So much so in fact that the distillery bottling was changed to a vatted "pure malt" for a brief period in 2002 to ease pressure on its stock, but quickly reverted back to a single malt in 2004 following widespread criticism. The incident saw the rewriting of the rulebook for single malt whisky, and the birth of the term "blended malt," adding some infamy to the Cardhu history books in the process.

This was distilled in April 1974 and bottled in August 1999 for the Millennium Edition series. Drawn from from sherry butt #3612.

Signatory Vintage were established in 1988 by Andrew Symington and are one of Scotland's most prolific independent bottlers. Their offices and bottling facility are located next to Edradour distillery, which they have also owned since 2002.