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Macallan-Glenlivet 15 Year Old. Liqueur Whisky. Bottled by Gordon & MacPhail in the early 1960s. 26 2/3 Fl Ozs. 100 Proof. No box.
Distilled in the late 1940s and bottled by Gordon & MacPhail in the early 1960s, this Macallan-Glenlivet 15 Year Old is an exceptionally rare example of post-war Macallan and a fascinating snapshot of the distillery during one of its most formative periods. Bottled at the traditional 100 Proof (57.1% ABV), it represents whisky produced when the distillery was still operating on a much smaller scale.
This example features the highly desirable Securo cap, a closure used only briefly during the early 1960s. Despite its short production run, the Securo cap is widely regarded as one of the best seals fitted to a whisky bottle, renowned for preserving both fill levels and the condition of the spirit over many decades. Adding further period charm is the surviving original pre-decimal retail price sticker, marked '82/6 ea' (82 shillings and sixpence each), equivalent to £4.12½ in decimal currency. A small but increasingly uncommon feature, it offers a fascinating glimpse into the bottle's original retail history. Together with the classic licensed distillery label and screen-printed decoration, these details firmly place this bottle amongst Gordon & MacPhail's most collectible early releases.
Whiskies distilled during the late 1940s are exceptionally scarce today, with relatively little spirit from the immediate post-war years surviving in original bottlings. Macallan from this era is particularly sought after, offering collectors the opportunity to own a piece of the distillery's early history, long before its rise to become one of the world's most celebrated single malt producers.
This bottle comes from the remarkable collection we have been privileged to offer over the past several years and is the first example of this particular bottling that we have ever brought to auction. As such, its appearance on the open market represents a genuinely exceptional opportunity for collectors of historic Macallan and early Gordon & MacPhail releases.
The grandest of Speyside’s blue chip distilleries, Macallan was founded in 1824 and carved a reputation for luxury single malt whisky in the 1980s with a string of 18-year-old and 25-year-old sherry-matured vintage single malts distilled in the 1960s and 1970s, building on the renown of earlier highly-regarded licensed bottlings by Gordon & MacPhail, Hall & Bramley and Campbell, Hope and King.
In the early 2000s, as the supply and quality of even the best sherry casks declined dramatically, Macallan introduced their Fine Oak series, an initially controversial range of bottlings that included bourbon-matured spirit in the cask recipe. While the Fine Oak series took some time to find its audience, Macallan’s status as the top Speyside distillery - particularly at auction - was already well-established and today a legion of eager Macallan fans ensure that each new luxury bottling from the distillery sells out immediately on release.
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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