Closed 1991
Port Dunmore 1983
41
years old
Last surviving cask from a forgotten Lowland distillery. Heavily sherried.
£68,000
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The Orphan Programme
Casks the world forgot.
Every so often, a cask emerges from the back of a warehouse with no clear owner, a faded stencil and an extraordinary story. We give them a second life.
An orphan cask is one whose paper trail has thinned to almost nothing — a relic of a distillery that has fallen silent, been demolished, or simply forgotten one of its own children in a damp corner of the bond.
Our Orphan Programme exists to find these casks, verify their provenance through HMRC records, gauging slips and warehouse ledgers, and return them to circulation under proper care. Each one is a finite, irreplaceable artefact.
Currently in our care
Available orphans
Silent — closed 1983
Glenugie 1979
45
years old
Refill hogshead. Coastal, waxy, deeply oxidative.
£94,500
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Caledonian 1987
37
years old
Single grain in a 1st-fill bourbon barrel. Coconut, vanilla, beeswax.
£21,800
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Loch Eilean 1991
33
years old
Refill PX. Dried fig, walnut oil, smoke from a long-dead kiln.
£37,200
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