Glen Ord 1965-2005 - 40 Year Old - Royal Mile Whiskies

INFORMATION

Glen Ord 1965 - 2005. 40 Year Old. Selected by Royal Mile Whiskies. One of 300 bottles. 70cl. 40.1%.

A single cask 1965 Glen Ord bottled as a 40-year-old by Edinburgh retailer Royal Mile Whiskies in 2005, yielding exactly 300 bottles at its natural cask strength of 40.1% - so they caught it right in the nick of time. This Glen Ord 1965 remains the earliest vintage of Glen Ord we’re aware of, and was the longest-aged bottling from the distillery until the Forgotten Drop series appeared in 2017.

DISTILLERY:Glen Ord

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:40.1%

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

Bottle PRODUCED:300

BOTTLER:Private Bottling

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Highland

DISTILLED YEAR:1965

BOTTLING DATE::2005

AGE:40

Glen Ord is a classic Highland distillery, originally built in 1838 and now producing an enormous 11 million litres per annum, making it one of the largest distilleries in Scotland. The distillery is also home to a huge industrial maltings facility supplying malted barley to various other Diageo distilleries including Talisker.

Sadly, Glen Ord’s characterful but easy-drinking single malt has been unavailable in the UK since 2006 when it was withdrawn and repackaged for Asian markets as the Singleton of Glen Ord. This tragedy notwithstanding, the distillery’s official bottlings have a good reputation among whisky drinkers, with the old 12-year-old and the long-aged Special Release bottlings from 2003-2005 particularly popular; however, the most famous Glen Ord is undoubtedly the Samaroli 1962 Ord Bouquet 22-year-old, one of the greatest single malt whiskies ever bottled.