Glendronach bargains......?

[STUDOGG37]

Anyone heard about this....? I am currently drinking a 21 year but I'll be looking out for a 12yr 2013 bottle this weekend.

"There are plenty of whisky drinkers out there who enjoy a whisky even more when they know something about the heritage of a distillery. In the case of GlenDronach, the distillery of sherried whisky fame, there is one interesting tidbit that stands out. So what's that, you ask? That, for instance, there's a causality between the mothballing of GlenDronach and the true age of their age statement whiskies. The distillery was closed from 1996 until 2001, and that gap of six years forces GlenDronach to use older whisky than necessary. Take a long hard look at the infographic below and see for yourself.

The 12yo Original was released in 2009, so should've been at least partly distilled in 1997. Except that wasn't a possibility. So the first batch of 12yo GlenDronach was already actually at least 14 years old. If you bought a 12yo in 2013, you actually got a 18 year old whisky. The same also works for the 15yo Revival, 18yo Allardice and 21yo Parliament. At certain peak moments you're buying a whisky that is actually six years older than is stated on the bottle."

http://wordsofwhisky.com/glendronach-is-a-lot-older-than-the-label-says/
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[Alexppp]

I did do the maths for the 15 year-old, but for some reason it hadn't occurred to me that the same would apply to other bottles too! Very good point. Although presumably they're able to use spirit distilled in 2001 and 2002 for the 12 year-old now.

[Bookie]

A bit like Ardbeg 10 when Glemorangie took it over in in 1997, production had shut down between 1981 - 1989, then again closed 1996 - 1997. The Ardbeg 10 was introduced in 1999 but to fufill demand for it, it was said that there was a lot of older stuff in the bottle for a number or years after the 10 was launched..

[William]

Glendronach was mothballed in 1996 and production didnt resume again until 14th May 2002 so what is in the Glendronach 12 year old bottle at least up until May this year will be older than the 12 year old age statement on the bottle and recent bottlings must be at least 15 years old.
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[TheWM]

edited - my brain isn't working properly.

I'm gonna do some research.

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[albo]

I guess it all makes sense when you think about it. I had a 15yo a couple of years back. I wonder if I was really drinking something a little older