The Coopers Choice Ardmore 2003 Bourbon Cask Matured 48.5%

Description

The Coopers Choice Ardmore 2003 is a third party independent bottling of Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky. This is a very limited single cask bottling.

The Cooper’s Choice range of whiskies is bottled by the Vintage Malt Whisky Co. (VMWC) which was founded by Brian Cook in 1992. Brian is a honours graduate in Food Science with twenty year’s experience in the malt whisky industry, latterly as Export Director for one of Scotland’s principal distillers. The aim of the VMWC is to produce a range of malt whiskies from Scotland’s finest distilleries and to make them available to independent wine and spirit importers throughout the world. This single malt whisky is individually bottled and presented under the distinctive Coopers Choice label. Casks of malts at different ages are selected from some of Scotland’s finest, but rarely bottled, distilleries. They encompass all the varied tastes and flavours to be found from the Eastern coastline, to the Highland Valleys and all the way to the Western Isles.

The Ardmore Distillery is located in the Eastern Highlands at Kennethmont in Aberdeenshire. It was founded in 1898 and was originally built by William Teacher to provide whisky for the world-renowned Teachers Highland Cream blended whisky. It remains a main component of that blend today. Ardmore is unsual for the the Highlands as some of the spirit is made from peated barley.

Only 306 bottles of Coopers Choice Ardmore 2003 were produced. It was distilled in Spetember 2003 and bottled after the whisky had been aged in ex-Bourbon casks for over 17 years old in 2021.

Cask Ref #801285 Bottled 48.5% ABV.