Glen Ord 17 Year Old 1987 SMWS Single Cask 77.9 A Tennis Court Whisky Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2005) 75cl

Glen Ord 17 Year Old 1987 SMWS Single Cask 77.9 A Tennis Court Whisky Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2005) 75cl

1 of 188 bottles produced for the US Market.

This cask went to the USA even back in the early 2000s

The oldest label format from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society which ran from 1983 until 2006.

This was only released in USA so a little more whisky at 75cl instead of 70cl. It is a cask that we did not get to enjoy in the UK.
It is such a delight to see some of the really early editions of the SMWS single cask bottlings. Even better to drink them!

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society was founded in Edinburgh in 1983 by Phillip 'Pip' Hills who, while travelling around Scotland in the 1970s, fell in love with whiskies drawn straight from the cask. After he expanded his syndicate the Society was purchased by Glenmorangie PLC in 2004. In 2015, the Society was sold back to private investors. In June 2021, the private owners floated the holding company The Artisanal Spirits Company plc on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.

It has a unique code system where the first number refers to the distillery and the second refers to the cask from which the bottle comes. SMWS also offers the largest range of distilleries of any independent bottler. These curiously named drams really do have something for every whisky lover!

The SMWS are one of the Britain's most revered independent bottlers with a worldwide network of partner bars with one mission of getting as much whisky at natural cask strength without water to different nations including USA, Canada, Switzerland, UK, Austria, Germany and many others.

These older labels from the first runs are mostly with distillation methods that include direct heat which was replaced with steam for many distilleries for environmental reasons changing the taste of whisky forever. It'll get real interesting when nuclear fusion is used to distil whisky. We might glow green for a few weeks after we drink the stuff. Who knows.... but all we know is that the old stuff has a musky taste that is VERY welcomed by people nowadays trying to time travel through whisky's past.

57.8% ABV

75cl