Tullibardine The Murray Triple Port Cask Finish Single Highland Malt Whisky 70 cl 46%

Tullibardine The Murray Triple Port Cask Finish Single Highland Malt Whisky 70 cl 46%

This twelfth release from Tullibardine in the The Marquess Collection series is aged in three different types of port wine casks: White Port, Tawny Port and Ruby Port, giving it a fantastic depth and flavor profile.

Distillery: Tullibardine The Murray
Year: Distilled: 2008 Bottled: 2022
Age: 13 years
Type: Single Highland Malt Whisky
Cask number/type: Port Cask
Alc. strength: 46 %
70 cl.
Other: The Marquess Collection - Triple Port Cask Finish

Tullibardine The Murray
70cl / 46%
Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Distillery Bottling
From The Marquess Collection comes a cask strength version of Tullibardine called "The Murray". Distilled in 2008 and bottled in 2022

The Tullibardine Distillery is a small privately owned whisky distillery that specializes in Scotch Vintage Single Malt whisky. Tullibardine Distillery uses water from the same spring that supplied the first legal brewery in Scotland and from which King James IV bought his beer when he celebrated his coronation in 1488.

Tullibardine Distillery is located at the foot of the Ochil Mountains in Perthshire and is known for its crystal clear spring water. The distillery is a popular destination as it is close to the world-famous Gleneagles spa hotel and golf course and only a 45-minute drive north of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Choose Tullibardine when you want a classic Highland malt from a unique vintage!

Tullibardine The Distillery has had a somewhat changeable existence since it was bought by Welshman William Delme Evans in 1947 and converted from a brewery to a distillery. After 2 years of rebuilding, the distillery was finally able to produce the spirit that would become Tullibardine Distillery Highland Scotch Single Malt many years later in 1949. In 1953, the distillery was sold again, as the owner Mr. Evans was no longer able to run the distillery due to ill health. Mr. Evans instead spent his time designing the Jura and Glenallachie distilleries, but remained true to Tullibardine, where he was still responsible for the final product until 1994, when new owner Brodie Hepburn decided to mothball Tullibardine Distillery.

Tullibardine The Distillery then remained a 'Silent Distillery' until 2003 when a private consortium of Scotch whisky industry professionals decided to buy the distillery and restart production in 2004 after 9 years of silence. "A lot of money has been spent on reopening the distillery but it has been well worth it": says one of the owners Michael Beamish. "As well as an excellent stock of vintage malt dating back to 1964, we can now bottle whiskies from 1973, 1988, 1993 and most recently 1994 - all as "VINTAGES".

Whisky architect
The new Tullibardine distillery was designed by Welshman William Delmé-Evans, who was also the architect of the Isle of Jura and Glenallachie distilleries. For the construction of the distillery, walls and stone from the old brewery on the site were used. Delmé-Evans himself helped run the distillery for the first few years, along with a retired customs officer, but it soon became apparent that they did not have the financial ability to run it, and when Delmé-Evans fell ill he decided to sell Tullibardine. The year was 1953 and the buyers were Brodie Hepburn - a whisky company from Glasgow. Ownership Until 1958, retired customs officer C.I. Barret continued as manager of the distillery. In 1971, Invergordon Distillers came in, which was later taken over by Whyte & Mackay (in 1993).

Unfortunately, Whyte & Mackay found that there were several of Invergordon's malt distilleries they didn't want to invest in and Tullibardine was among the unfortunate ones to close in January 1995 (Bruichladdich and Tamnavulin suffered the same fate). The equipment Along the way, Whyte & Mackay had expanded production from two to four boilers, so the distillery actually has a relatively large capacity - a capacity that is not nearly utilized today. The equipment remained on site after the closure, so the chance of production resuming was a long time coming - then one day some businessmen showed up and came up with a great idea. The first was to restart the distillery and start some exciting bottlings. The next was to create a shopping plaza so that vacationers heading north to the Highlands would have an interest in stopping off. They bought the distillery for just £1.1 million and set the plans in motion.

No standard 12 year old bottling
The distillery started up again in December 2003, which is why you don't see a standard 10 or 12 year old bottling - simply because the distillery was closed at the time. The oldest spirit from the reopening is almost ready to be bottled, but eight years is still too young, even though the young spirit is way better than the old one. To be honest, Whyte & Mackay has never been bothered about being the best on the raw spirit side - a great description of Tullibardine from before the closure is that "all bottlings have a touch of liver oil about them". Even if it's not liver oil, it's probably diplomatic to say that it was a very heavy distillate that they chose to cask - the heaviness, best described in whisky parlance as 'feints' (heavy and sulphurous) was a consistent feature of Jura, Tullibardine and Fettercairn.

Tullibardine have tackled this by creating a range of cask finishes that add enough cask character to overpower, in many cases, the economies of the old distillers. So get something either very old Tullibardine, something that has been finished in other casks or something young. The stuff from the 90s just wasn't good enough on its own. Tullibardine The distillery has been sold to the French family business Picard, based at Château de Chassagne-Montrachet in Burgundy, France. Having previously acquired the "The Highland Queen " brand from Glenmorangie in 2009, the acquisition of Tullibardine strengthens the French company's position in Scotland.

Chairman Michel Picard said: "The acquisition of Tullibardine Distillery gives us synergies and a platform to expand our Scotch whisky business. Tullibardine is a great Single Malt Scotch Whisky and we look forward to working with the staff at Tullibardine to strengthen the name, availability and, most importantly, sales in the coming years.