Product description
We can point to at least two factors that determine the status of a rarity for the whisky presented here.
The first is the year of distillation, 1964. In 1960, Bruichladdich Distillery was bought from DCL by a small firm of whisky brokers, AB Grant & Co., then owners of Bladnoch Distillery. At that time, Bruichladdich was a small distillery equipped with a single pair of stills and produced small quantities of excellent whisky. In 1968, the plant would pass into the ownership of Invergordon Distillers, later Whyte & Mackay, companies focused on the production and distribution of blended whisky. The second factor is the publisher of the edition, Scotchconnection, a German company that, according to the information we have obtained, operated between 1996 and 1998. Its whiskies were released in the series "The Piper's Preferred" and the sources available to us list only a dozen or so editions.
Bruichladdich 1964 was most likely bottled in 1996. We know that only single cask editions were included in the Piper's Preferred series, and from the color of the drink we can assume that it was a sherry cask. We will also add that, observing the whisky market for years, we have not yet encountered a negative opinion about Bruichladdich single cask distilled before 1968. On the contrary, they were all downright ecstatic.