This single cask bottling of a 50-year-old Glenlivet single malt was produced by the independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail in the Private Collection series. The whisky was distilled in 1959, matured in a first-fill ex-sherry hogshead and was bottled in 2009 in 197 individually numbered bottles.
The official foundation of the distillery dates back to 1824 as one of the first legal distilleries, but the owner George Smith was also very enterprising as a black distiller before.
The distillery is located in the valley of the river Livet, the water comes mainly from Josie's Well spring near the distillery.
The Speyside lies in the north-east of the Highlands and is considered the centre of Scotland's whisky production. Around the towns of Elgin, Rothes, Keith and Dufftown there are more distilleries than anywhere else in Scotland, including big names such as Glenfarclas, Glenlivet, Macallan and many more.
Elegance and complexity are often cited as characteristic features of Speyside malts, but the variety of whiskies produced here is too great to speak of a single style.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
This single cask bottling of a 50-year-old Glenlivet single malt was produced by the independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail in the Private Collection series. The whisky was distilled in 1959, matured in a first-fill ex-sherry hogshead and was bottled in 2009 in 197 individually numbered bottles.
The official foundation of the distillery dates back to 1824 as one of the first legal distilleries, but the owner George Smith was also very enterprising as a black distiller before.
The distillery is located in the valley of the river Livet, the water comes mainly from Josie's Well spring near the distillery.
The Speyside lies in the north-east of the Highlands and is considered the centre of Scotland's whisky production. Around the towns of Elgin, Rothes, Keith and Dufftown there are more distilleries than anywhere else in Scotland, including big names such as Glenfarclas, Glenlivet, Macallan and many more.
Elegance and complexity are often cited as characteristic features of Speyside malts, but the variety of whiskies produced here is too great to speak of a single style.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
