This Whisky Company Just Bought Bob Dylan’s Scottish Manor for More Than $5 Million
Bob Dylan sold his mansion in Scotland for the American equivalent of $5,352,994. (Photo: AP Photo/Herve Merliac)
On Wednesday, the Scottish Sun reported that famed musician Bob Dylan sold his historic Highland mansion for £4.26 million ($5.35 million) to the family-owned whisky company Angus Dundee Distillers. Angus Dundee Distillers owns whisky brands Tomintoul and Glencadam.
The 16-bedroom home, which is referred to as “Aultmore House,” dates back to the Edwardian era. Aultmore House was owned by Dylan for almost two decades, and was put on the market in the summer after Dylan referred to it as “surplus to requirements.” The property went into escrow in September after a deal was brokered by the real estate company Knight Frank, according to The Scottish Sun.
It is unclear what plans Angus Dundee Distillers have for the property.
Aultmore House was built by Archibald Merrilees sometime between 1911 and 1915, according to the Scottish Sun. Merrilees was the son of a Scottish merchant and achieved financial success after co-founding the first department store in Russia.
The property is surrounded by 24 acres of forest and has three four-bedroom cottages.
“Up until about pre-Covid, Bob and his brother would normally go there for a few weeks a year,” Knight Frank real estate agent Tom Stewart-Moore said, per the Scottish Sun.
Stewart-Moore considered the house to be “in very good order” and claimed Dylan was drawn to the property because it was “stunningly beautiful” and “most importantly very, very private.”
It seems fitting that a whisky company would purchase the property because Dylan has his own whiskey brand – Heaven’s Door. Since its inception, Heaven’s Door has won multiple awards at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, SIP Awards and World Wine and Spirits Competition. The brand released a whiskey finished in Redbreast Irish whiskey casks, and the expression made our list of the 7 Best Celebrity Whiskeys That Are Actually Worth Tasting.
In July, Bob Dylan shared with the world his first Kentucky Bourbon which was named Ascension. The 92-proof bourbon was crafted at the brand’s new distillery in Six Mile Creek. Though news of the distillery made media headlines in April, the brand was allegedly operating out of the location in secret for six years.
In November, Heaven’s Door released an 18-year-old bourbon finished in Spanish vermouth rouge casks as part of its premium Bootleg series. The expression hosts a suggested retail price of $599.
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