Springbank 1974 Dun Bheagan 28 Year Old

An independent bottling of Springbank, part of William Maxwell & Co's Dun Bheagan collection.

William Maxwell & Co was a subsidiary company of Peter J Russell, who alongside sister firm Ian Macleod & Co, produced a range of blends and independent single malt bottlings. This is their Dun Bheagan single malt brand, named after the castle on the Isle of Skye. Peter J Russell rebranded as Ian Macleod Distillers in 2003, at the same time as achieving their long-held ambition of becoming distillery owners, acquiring Glengoyne, and later, Tamdhu and Rosebank.

Springbank distillery has been owned and operated by the Mitchell family in Campbeltown since 1837, and it one of Scotland's most revered distilleries. Following a brief mothballing between 1979 and 1987, upon the reopening the decision was taken to cease all sales to the blending industry and focus on its single malt sales. Today it is one of the only distilleries to malt, distil, bottle and mature whisky on the same site, and produces three distinct and highly prized single malts.

This whisky was distilled in 1974 and aged in hogshead #2380 before being bottled in 2003.

One of 198 bottles.