Glendronach Finest Highland Malt - 'Full Proof'

An incredible example of pre-second world war Glendronach from the Highland distillery in Forgue by Huntly. Glendronach was built in 1826 by James Allardice, and rebuilt following a fire in 1852 by an individual named Walter Scott (although not the one you might be thinking of). It eventually passed into the hands of perhaps Scotland's greatest distilling dynasty, the Grant's of Glenfiddich. Silent at the time, the distillery was sold by government (who had owned it since 1916) to Charles, the youngest son of William Grant in 1920, whose signature is present on earlier examples of these bottles.

As such, this bottle will have been one of the first released from the newly revived distillery, and is likely aged around 12 years. It is one of the earliest example of an officially bottled single malt, or " perfect self whisky" as the label reads.

Interestingly, this example has had the 75° proof measurement redacted on its label. This is generally known to infer that the bottle was filled at a higher strength, with examples in the past opened and measured in the ~56% ABV region (likely originally 100° proof/57% ABV).