Ben Wyvis 37-year-old (Distilled 1965) / 44% / 0.7l
- Ben Wyvis was one of the shortest operating Scottish distilleries, founded in 1965 and demolished just 11 years later.
Product description
The history of the Ben Wyvis Distillery can be summed up in one sentence – it began operating in 1965, and just eleven years later there was no trace of it.
The distillery was established on the grounds of the Invergordon Grain Distillery with the mission of producing single malt whisky for Whyte & Mackay blends. Over the next decade, the Invergordon company owned four malt distilleries (Tamnavulin, Tullibardine, Bruichladdich and Deanston), which more than met the demand for malt whisky, and that meant the end of the Ben Wyvis project. The fingers of one hand can count the editions of this single malt, in 1999 The Final Resurrection edition was released, billed as the distillery’s epitaph, but it is said that soon (we are unable to verify this information) Whyte & Mackay discovered another cask of Ben Wyvis in a warehouse, distilled June 1965. It belonged to a private owner, but a brief investigation revealed that he was in arrears with the company’s warehouse fees. As a result, this cask (no. 300066) was acquired by Whyte & Mackay and its contents used in the edition presented here. It numbered 200 bottles.
Unfortunately, we did not have the opportunity to taste this rare whisky, we only read that it is an "old school" classic - fruity and slightly mineral, where the sweetness of fruit, vanilla and honey is balanced by spices (pepper and ginger) and a beautifully woven bitterness of oak.