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Glen Grant 1948-2018 - 70 Year Old - Gordon & MacPhail Private Collection - Single Cask 2154

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Glen Grant 1948 - 2018. 70 Year Old. Bottled by Gordon & MacPhail for their Private Collection. Cask number 2154. One of 210 bottles matured in a First Fill Sherry Butt. 70cl. 48.6%. In wooden presentation box. Missing booklet.

A remarkable Glen Grant 1948 released by Gordon & MacPhail in 2018 a few months after its 70th birthday. Cask 2154 was a first fill sherry butt distilled in June 1948 and bottled over seven decades later in October 2018, becoming the oldest ever Glen Grant bottling at the time and yielding 210 bottles at a still remarkably hearty 48.6%.

The extraordinary longevity of Glen Grant’s spirit has been proven by G&M time and again, and this famous 70-year-old edition is one of the best examples - the whisky is  packed with rich sherry and exotic fruit and even has a subtle thread of peatsmoke thanks to the postwar coal shortages. A stunning old Glen Grant from G&M.

Distillery: Glen Grant

Distillery Status: Working

Bottler: Gordon & MacPhail

Region: Speyside

Distilled Year: 1948

Bottling Year: 2018

Age: 70

Bottles Produced: 210

Limited Edition: yes

Cask Number: 2154

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 70cl / 700ml

ABV: 48.6%

Founded in 1840, Glen Grant is one of Speyside’s largest and greatest distilleries. The distillery became part of Seagram’s Chivas Brothers group in the 1970s, and was subsequently acquired in 2001 by Pernod Ricard, who sold Glen Grant to Campari in 2006.

Glen Grant’s association with Italy goes back much further, however. Gordon & MacPhail were already licensed bottlers of Glen Grant in the 1960s when the two companies began a highly beneficial relationship with Italian hotelier and importer Armando Giovinetti which led directly to Glen Grant’s ongoing dominance of the Italian single malt market.

Glen Grant’s spirit is particularly well-suited to very long ageing in both bourbon and sherry casks, making it the perfect fit for Gordon & MacPhail who released a 72-year-old Glen Grant in 2020 and whose semi-official licensed bottlings of Glen Grant are legendary. Indie Glen Grants are abundant and are generally excellent value.

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.

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