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Demerara Rum 1975 Cadenhead's Green Label 2008

Lot: 6029851

Demerara Rum 1975 Cadenhead's Green Label 2008

Winning Bid: £601

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Lot:
Distillery: 
see lot description
Age: 
33 year old
Vintage: 
1975
Region: 
Guyana
Bottler: 
Wm. Cadenhead
Cask Type: 
n/a
Bottled Strength: 
40.6%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Production method: 
N/A
Base: 
Guyana molasses
product Details

Demerara Rum 1975 Cadenhead's Green Label 2008

Wm. Cadenhead may be Scotland’s oldest independent bottler Scotch, but its connections to the rum industry are just as lengthy. The company was founded in 1842 by George Duncan. His brother William Cadenhead joined the company in 1952, taking over after George’s death in 1958. William had a relation called Robert Cadenhead who owned a rum merchant business in Liverpool and London, and the two companies were amalgamated upon Robert's death. Wm. Cadenhead got into the whisky bottling business after 1904, when William's nephew Robert Duthie took over, and since its sale to J&A Mitchell in 1972, Wm. Cadenhead has become one of the most sought after names on the independent scene, and was one of the earliest brands to begin promoting single distillery bottlings of rum.

A stunning traditional Demerara rum, distilled in 1975 by what is now Demerara Distillers Ltd, and bottled in Scotland in 2007. Wm. Cadenhead bottled four releases of this 1975 vintage, with this being the third. The others were bottled in 2005, 2007 and 2012.

This was produced during the early period of the nationalisation of the Guyana sugar trade by the country’s government, which saw it acquire a controlling stake in the country’s three remaining distilling companies. It managed these using a holding company called the Guyana Liquor Corporation, and its portfolio included the Diamond, Enmore, Uitvlugt and briefly, Versailles distilleries (they closed the latter in 1978). One of its first orders of business was to begin laying down stock with a view to bottlings its own brands, which it eventually did in 1992, launching its now iconic El Dorado 15 year old. In the meantime it continued distilling bulk rum for independent bottlers, resulting in a wealth of spectacular releases like this. These may contain single marque rums, or a blend of various marques from the country’s many historic stills, all of which are still in use today at Diamond, the sole remaining distillery. Known as the “heritage stills,” they are Uitvlugt’s historic four-column French Savalle stills, the Versailles and Port Mourant wooden pot stills, and the Enmore wooden coffey still, the oldest and last of its kind in the world.

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