The Duchess is the indepdent bottler brand of the Dutch retailer Best of Wines. In their Shieldmaiden series the first bottling was this Ardbeg 1991 single cask.

Remember Ardbeg was closed from mars 1981 until 1989, and was only operating for two months every year between 1989 and the next closure in juli 1996. Back then Iain Henderson of Laphroaig was the Caretaker Manager – both distilleries were part of the Allied Distillers group. Very little stock from this era remains – as a first bottling this is quite impressive.

Ardbeg ‘Malin’ 25 yo 1991 (49,8%, The Duchess...