North British Chairman's Stock 40 Year Old, Refill Butt Cask, 1985, Cadenhead's, 51.9%

Name: North British Chairman's Stock 40 Year Old, Refill Butt Cask, 1985, Cadenhead's, 51.9%
Brand: North British
Rating: 88 (2 reviews)

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This extraordinary North British release comes from the Chairman's Stock reserves of William Cadenhead Ltd, Scotland's oldest independent bottler, founded in 1842 and long respected for its uncompromising approach to single cask whisky. Bottled at 51.9% ABV after an impressive 40 years of maturation in a refill butt, this expression exemplifies the depth and elegance that long aged grain whisky can achieve when carefully stewarded. As with all Chairman's Stock bottlings, this cask was drawn from the private collection of the late Chairman Hedley G Wright and released in extremely limited quantities, bottled without chill filtration or added colour to preserve its natural character.

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Type: Single Grain Whisky
Region: Lowland
Age: 40 Years
Vintage: 1985
Bottled: 2025
ABV: 51.9%
Volume: 70cl
Distillery: North British
Origin: Scotland

Cask type: Refill Butt
Bottling: Independent Bottling - Cadenhead's
Peated: Unpeated
Single cask: Yes
Non-chill filtered: Yes
Cask origin: N.A
Cask no.: N.A
Batch: N.A
PPM: N.A
Barley: N.A
Fermentation: N.A
Master distiller (bottling): N.A
Master distiller (distillation): N.A

Limited edition: Yes
Bottle count: 498
Has box: N.A
Closure: screw cap
Presentation: N.A
Series highlights: Chairman's Stock
Historical context: N.A
Special release: Limited Edition
Allocation: N.A

Nose: Nettle soup, coconut milk, polished oak, vanilla custard, crème brûlée, rum soaked fruit, gently hoppy.
Palate: Brown sugar, rye bread, brandy notes, buttery toffee, toffee penny sweets, toasted oats, honeyed sweetness, delicate oak spices.
Finish: Creamy, aniseed, caramelised white chocolate, almonds, nutty, Angostura bitters, soft wood tones, lingering sweetness.

88 / 100 · Based on 2 published reviews.

BrassSoda9 Aug

88 / 100

That lingering sweetness gives this a nice little tail: creamy notes meet aniseed, caramelised white chocolate and soft wood. The nutty edge and Angostura bitters keep the finish from turning one-note. A playful, sweet-leaning character with enough contrast to hold my interest.

Ssilver.fox18 Apr

88 / 100

The oak is clearly part of the picture, from polished oak on the nose to delicate oak spices and soft wood tones later on. Still, I’m not sure it leads the character: the vanilla custard and crème brûlée, then the brown sugar and buttery toffee, seem to pull more strongly toward creamy sweetness. Rye bread and brandy notes add a drier counterpoint. That balance sounds appealing, though I’d have preferred the oak to feel a little more central.

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