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Strathisla 1957-2014 - 57 Year Old - Gordon & MacPhail - Private Collection Ultra - Single Cask 1730
Strathisla 1957 - 2014. 57 Year Old. Bottled by Gordon & MacPhail for their Private Collection Ultra. Cask number 1730. One of 61 bottles matured in a Sherry Hogshead. 70cl. 51.6%.
An exceptionally rare 57-year-old Strathisla, distilled in 1957 and bottled in 2014 by Gordon & MacPhail as one of four special releases in their prestigious Private Collection Ultra series.
This remarkable Strathisla was matured in single sherry hogshead cask #1730, personally selected for bottling by Gordon & MacPhail managing director Michael Urquhart and his daughter Laura Urquhart, then the company's brand manager. After 57 years of maturation, the cask yielded just 61 bottles at an impressive natural cask strength of 51.6%.
Gordon & MacPhail have bottled a number of extraordinary old Strathislas from the 1957 vintage, drawing on stocks laid down during their long relationship with the distillery. This 2014 Private Collection Ultra release ranks among the oldest and rarest examples, with its tiny outturn of 61 bottles making it an especially scarce expression of post-war Strathisla.
One of the greatest of the Speyside distilleries, Strathisla distillery’s whisky is equally at home in sherry or bourbon casks but is not heavily marketed as a single malt, as its spirit is a crucial ingredient in owner Pernod Ricard’s portfolio of blended whiskies. The only official bottlings released are the standard 12-year-old and a series of single cask bottlings available only at the group’s distillery visitor centres.
Thankfully, Gordon & MacPhail have long been a licensed bottler of Strathisla and hold a very considerable stock of Strathisla casks dating back decades. G&M have bottled a remarkable number of superb Strathislas, from the extraordinary 1937 vintage bottles through to the recent 65-year-old Strathisla 1953. At auction, away from the famous vintages and long-aged sherrybombs, mid-aged Strathislas from Gordon & MacPhail are generally excellent value.
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.