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Macallan-Glenlivet 15 Year Old. Liqueur Whisky. Bottled by Gordon & MacPhail in the late 1960s. 26 2/3 Fl Ozs. 70 Proof. No box.
An increasingly scarce late 1960s bottling of Macallan 15 Year Old, released by Gordon & MacPhail under their famous licensed distillery label series. Matured and bottled by the Elgin bottler under a long-standing arrangement with Macallan, these semi-official releases were drawn from casks filled by Gordon & MacPhail and aged in their own warehouses, preserving a fascinating snapshot of the distillery's character during one of its most revered eras.
Distilled in the mid-1950s, this whisky captures Macallan at a time when production remained relatively small-scale and the distillery's rich, sherried spirit was already earning a formidable reputation. Bottles from this period are becoming increasingly difficult to source, particularly in such well-preserved condition.
A particularly charming feature of this example is the original retailer's price label on the the side of the bottle, marked 58/5 ea (58 shillings and 5 pence). Before decimalisation in 1971, this represented £2 18s 5d, equivalent to approximately £70–£80 in today's money after inflation—a fascinating reminder of how dramatically the whisky market has evolved over the past half-century.
This example comes from the remarkable collection we have been privileged to auction over the last several years, offering collectors another opportunity to acquire an exceptional piece of Macallan and Gordon & MacPhail history.
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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