Scapa 1980-2005 | 25 Year Old

Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling 70cl / 54%

A wonderful old bottle of the rare Scapa 1980 25-year-old. This bottling appeared in 2005 during a turbulent time for the tiny Orcadian distillery, which was midway through a major refurbishment project and in the process of being sold to Chivas Brothers. 

Somewhat unusually for an official 25-year-old bottling at the time, Scapa 1980 was bottled at its poky cask strength of 54%, a genius move in retrospect as the whisky retains plenty of potency on what is a very complex palate, sweet and creamy but balanced by a lot of herbal and mineral notes, chalk, tobacco, citrus, dried exotic fruit and bakery spices.

Sadly this bottling was a one-off, remaining the oldest official bottling of Scapa until the release of the 1977 and 1979 vintage editions in 2020. A fine dram that shows what Scapa is really capable of.

Attributes

Distillery	Scapa
Bottler	Distillery
Country	Scotland
Region	Island
Distilled Year	1980
Bottling Year	2005
Age	25
Limited Edition	Yes
Bottles Produced	2,000
Bottle Size	70cl
ABV	54%
Pre-Owned	Yes