LOT ID: 0823-574
End Date : Oct 18 2023 08:14 PM
Glen Grant 1976 - 2009. 32 Year Old. Bottled by Douglas Laing for their Old Malt Cask series. Cask number HL5034. One of 266 bottles matured in a Sherry Butt. 700ml. 50%. In presentation tube.
A single cask Glen Grant 1976 bottled in 2009 as a 32-year-old without colouring or chill filtration by Douglas Laing for the Old Malt Cask range. Cask 5034 was a single sherry butt that yielded 266 bottles at the Old Malt Cask standard strength of 50%. 1976 is a relatively rare vintage for Glen Grant but the casks we’ve tried have all been exceptional and this chewy, plummy, raisiny dram is a fantastic example.
FILLING LEVEL
Upper Shoulder
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 the late 1940s by Fred Douglas Laing Sr, the Douglas Laing company spent decades as whisky blenders and exporters before Fred Laing’s sons Stewart and Fred Jr introduced the highly influential Old Malt Cask single malt range in 1998. The McGibbon’s Provenance and Old & Rare Platinum series followed soon afterwards, establishing Douglas Laing as one of Scotland’s finest independent bottlers.
In 2013 Stewart Laing left the business, taking Old Malt Cask and Old & Rare to his new company Hunter Laing, while Fred Laing Jr was joined by his daughter Cara and her husband Chris Leggatt from Morrison Bowmore, who left the business in 2023. The Old Particular and Extra Old Particular ranges were introduced to replace Old Malt Cask and Old & Rare, and the company has since moved into distilling with the purchase of Strathearn distillery in 2019 and the construction of Clutha distillery in Glasgow.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £420.00 | 18th October 2023 | 19:59 | |
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