Ardbeg 1976
Manager's Choice
Sherry Cask #2391

£99 Ballot price

(2019 price: £7500)
70cl, 56%
Bottle No. 327 out of 497

At the end of the last millennium, just as The Whisky Exchange made its first tentative steps online, Ardbeg distillery was also beginning a new era – an event it commemorated by releasing whiskies that would go on to become legendary.

One of the bottles released, the Ardbeg 1976 Manager's Choice, received instant acclaim and formed a cornerstone of the distillery's new, stellar, reputation. The 497 bottles from the single sherry cask were initially available from the distillery at a price of £99 – a fraction of what those cost today. To celebrate our 20th anniversary, two decades in which we've had the privilege of bringing our customers incredible whiskies, we are conducting a ballot for one lucky person to purchase this bottle at its original retail price.

The ballot has now closed.

About The Whisky Exchange

First launched online in 1999, The Whisky Exchange has grown to become one of the biggest, most successful and most respected online drinks retailers in the world, with a pair of award-winning London shops. Founded by two brothers who grew up in award-winning off-licence The Nest, it has remained a family company ever since, building a global family of employees, customers and friends in the process.

About Ardbeg

A distillery with a turbulent, yet triumphant history, Ardbeg suffered two closures in a single decade – first in 1981, and again in 1991 – only to reopen in 1997. These closures played havoc with the distillery's stocks, forcing Ardbeg to carefully balance the need to bottle exceptional whisky, with the desire to sustain that quality in years to come. As such, bottlings of exceptional, pre-closure whisky were few, far-between and much sought-after. Bottled in 1999, the 1976 Manager's Choice Sherry Cask #2391 is one of those rare pieces of Ardbeg history.