LOT ID: 0124-852
End Date : Feb 14 2024 08:00 PM
3 x Gordon & MacPhail Cask Strength Miniatures including:
- Caol Ila 1978 - 1992. Cask number 5347-5351-11553-11564. 5cl. 63.7%.
- Caol Ila 1988 - 2002. Cask number 1084-1085-1086-1087. 5cl. 57.6%.
- Caol Ila 1980 - 1993. Cask number 10521-10524. 5cl. 65.5%.
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Founded in Elgin as a merchant grocer and wine and spirits wholesaler in 1895, Gordon & MacPhail are one of the oldest independent whisky bottlers in Scotland. Co-founder James Gordon owned shares in Longmorn, Strathisla and Glen Grant, and Gordon & MacPhail were soon bottling officially licensed single malts from several distilleries and sending empty casks from their wine business to be filled with new make spirit and returned for maturation in their Elgin warehouses.
Gordon & MacPhail pioneered high strength single malts at 100 proof (57%) in the 1950s, and in 1968 the company launched Connoisseurs Choice, one of the first integrated ranges of small batch independent whisky bottlings. After finally becoming distillers themselves with the purchase of Benromach in 1993, in 2010 Gordon & MacPhail bottled the first 70-year-old single malt whisky (a Mortlach 1938) and in 2020 the company released the first ever 80-year-old whisky: Glenlivet 1940.
BID | DATE | TIME | |
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£37.50 | 14th February 2024 | 17:25 | |