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Pride Of Strathspey 1938 - James Gordon & Co - Gordon & MacPhail

LOT ID: 0823-279


End Date : Oct 18 2023 08:11 PM


Total Bids: 9   

Winning Bid
£1,200.00


LOT DESCRIPTION

Pride Of Strathspey 1938. Bottled by James Gordon & Co (Gordon & MacPhail). 75cl. 40%. 70 Proof. No box.

A wonderful old bottle of Gordon & MacPhail’s Pride of Strathspey 1938, an undisclosed single malt often rumoured to be Macallan. This bottling is from the 1970s and is one of the earlier examples - G&M continued to bottle batches of Pride of Strathspey 1938 well into the 1980s, with the later bottles featuring the company’s Book of Kells labels.

CONDITION

Nicks in label.

FILLING LEVEL

High Shoulder

Bottler: Gordon & MacPhail

Distilled Year: 1938

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 75cl / 750ml

ABV: 40% / 70 Proof

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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BID HISTORY

BID DATE TIME
Last Bids £1,200.00 18th October 2023 19:55