Kildalton (Ardbeg) Refill Barrel 2026

Kildalton (Ardbeg) Refill Barrel 2026

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£3,995.00
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Kildalton (Ardbeg) Refill Barrel 2026
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HED64316

20000 cl

£3,995.00
Taxes excluded.
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Wine Storage

Storing with Hedonism Wines

Secure, Professional Storage for Your Fine Wines

Hedonism Wines is pleased to offer secure, fully insured and professionally managed storage for both under-bond and duty-paid wines and spirits. Whether purchased from Hedonism Wines or transferred from an existing collection, your wines are stored in optimal conditions until you are ready to enjoy them.

Why Choose Storage with Hedonism Wines?

Your wines and spirits will be stored at our specialist storage facility in Essex, just outside London. With over a decade of experience handling and storing fine wines and spirits, the facility maintains strict temperature and humidity controls to ensure your collection is preserved in optimal conditions.

Key benefits include:

  • One year of free storage when you start storing at Hedonism Wines.
  • Competitive storage rates: £15 per 12-bottle case per year, £7.50 per 6-bottle case per year, equivalent to £1.25 per standard bottle. Alternative formats will be charged accordingly.
  • Full insurance coverage for loss or breakage.
  • Quick and efficient delivery: Wines can be cleared and delivered within the UK in 3-4 working days.
  • Quarterly invoicing for storage fees to keep the process simple and transparent.
  • Easily manage your stored wines online, request condition reports, and track your collection effortlessly.
  • Flexibility to store wines purchased elsewhere, subject to our approval.

Storage Pricing

Below is a summary of our storage costs:

Service Cost
Inbounding fee Free
Withdrawal fee Free
Storage and insurance - per standard 75cl bottle, per year £1.25
Example: 12-bottle case (12 x £1.25) £15 per year
Example: 6-bottle case (6 x £1.25) £7.50 per year

Duty Charges

Below is a summary of the new duty charges per bottle as of February 2026. Please note that these vary depending on the ABV and are subject to change. Please get in touch if you require more information:

Product Duty charge
Wine 12.5% ABV £2.87 per 75cl bottle
Wine 13.5% ABV £3.10 per 75cl bottle
Wine 14.5% ABV £3.33 per 75cl bottle
Spirits 45% ABV £11.47 per 70cl bottle

Transparent Billing and Rate Calculations

  • Quarterly Billing: Clients are invoiced quarterly based on the wines stored in the preceding quarter.
  • Pro-Rata Charges: Storage fees are charged on a per-bottle basis, and wines stored for part of a month will be billed accordingly.

How Our Storage Service Works

  1. Purchase en primeur, under-bond or duty-paid wines from Hedonism Wines.
  2. Enjoy twelve months of complimentary storage when you open a storage account with us.
  3. After twelve months, storage will continue at the rates outlined above, with charges invoiced quarterly.
  4. When you’re ready to receive your wines, simply request delivery – most orders are fulfilled within 3–4 working days. For wines held under bond, the relevant duty and VAT will be payable before delivery.

With Hedonism Wines’ storage service, both under-bond and duty-paid wines can be stored securely until you are ready to have them delivered. If you have any questions or would like to learn more about our storage service, please contact our team.

Store Your Existing Collection

To arrange storage, please complete the Collection Transfer Form and send it to your sales representative or reserves@hedonism.co.uk. Our team will then guide you through the transfer process.

Ardbeg is celebrated for a style that combines powerful peat smoke with remarkable precision and balance, often revealing notes of citrus, brine, tar, and sweet malt beneath the intensity. Long regarded as a benchmark for heavily peated whisky, its spirit is both distinctive and age-worthy, developing exceptional complexity over time. New make from Ardbeg is very rarely offered for private purchase, making opportunities like this particularly noteworthy for those seeking access at the earliest stage of maturation.

This cask, distilled in February 2026 and filled into a refill barrel at 63.7% ABV, offers a pure expression of the distillery’s character with the potential for long term evolution. Crucially, the cask includes full naming rights, allowing the owner to shape its identity and presentation when bottled, creating a truly bespoke Ardbeg-derived single cask.

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One of Scotland's most famous distilleries, Ardbeg is located on the isle of Islay, off the rugged west coast of Scotland. Founded in the early 1800s by John McDougall, the distillery has long been renowned for the heavily peaty spirits that flows from its stills. Ardbeg fell silent for eight years in the 1980s and distillation ceased. It was closed again the mid-1990s shortly before it was acquired by Glenmorangie, who restored the distillery to its former glory.

The distillery maintains around four core expressions, including the highly acclaimed Uigeadail, and regularly releases a number of themed limited editions as part of their committee release series and the annual "Ardbeg Day" celebrations.

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