LOT ID: 0824-526
End Date : Oct 16 2024 08:00 PM
Glenugie 1966. Bottled by Gordon & MacPhail for their Connoisseurs Choice series. 75cl. 40%. In presentation box.
A wonderful old Glenugie 1966 bottled by Gordon & MacPhail for their Connoisseurs Choice range in the 1990s with the old Map Label presentation. There’s no bottling date on this one, but the company released 1966 Glenugies in 1991 and 1994. Although the name is synonymous with quality in learned whisky circles, Glenugie is one of the less well known lost distilleries as very few casks escaped the blending vats after its closure in 1983. Typically a rich, fat, oily and fruity whisky, Glenugie’s first official bottling did not appear until 2010, almost 30 years after the distillery’s doors had closed for the final time.
FILLING LEVEL
Lower Neck
Glenugie distillery closed in 1983 and is one of the most-lamented of the lost Highland distilleries. Originally founded in 1831 as Invernettie, the distillery had a chequered past before being taken over and modernised in the 1950s and ‘60s by Schenley / Long John Distillers. Glenugie spent its active life in the shadows, with the first bottlings from Cadenhead’s and Gordon & MacPhail appearing around the end of the 1970s, just a few years before the distillery closed for good.
Glenugie was rarely bottled as a single malt, but the casks that survived have almost all been outstanding. Now owned by Pernod Ricard, at the time of writing only three official Glenugies have ever been released, the first of which appeared in 2010. Independent bottlings of Glenugie, the best examples of which are from Signatory Vintage, Cadenhead’s, The Bottlers, Douglas Laing, Gordon & MacPhail and Sestante command a premium at auction due to their scarcity and exceptionally high quality.
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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| £370.00 | 15th October 2024 | 21:46 | |
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