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Indie bottlings abound with fantastic old single malts bottled by the likes of Signatory, Gordon and MacPhail and The Last Drop.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"glen-garioch-23-year-old-blackadder-raw-cask-1990","title":"Glen Garioch 23 Year Old Blackadder Raw Cask 1990","description":"This 23-year-old Glen Garioch was distilled in 1990 and bottled by Blackadder in 2014. It is part of their ‘Raw Cask’ range, which means that it is bottled without any filtration or dilution, straight from the cask, resulting in a whisky that is full of character and flavour. 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