Glen Grant 1936 Gordon & MacPhail 1980sSpeyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky Bottled by: Gordon & MacPhail 75cl 40% A fabulous old bottle of Glen Grant 1936 Speyside single malt whisky released by independent bottlers Gordon & Macphail in the early to mid 1980s not far off its 50th birthday. All the bottlings from this vintage by G&M have been utterly stellar and this one should be no exception. Imagine an industrial incident at a tropical fruit and candle wax factory next to a farm, beside a

a one-off limited edition that appeared briefly in 2010

can never be replaced

peat and coastal characteristics

Distillery Bottling 70cl / 41

the Caribbean equivalent of Brora or Port Ellen

The 1977 12yo offers an interesting gap-bridging window onto the evolving style of Knockando (and indeed much of Scottish whisky production) at the time

Terrific young Longmorn from a superb vintage that with a couple of decades in bottle should become something of a minor masterpiece

and naturally there's a lot of variation between one bottle and another after decades - but what's certain is that the best blended whiskies like Haig's Dimple were the super-premium products of their day and had a much greater malt content than today's whiskies

Not forgetting the fact that they are starting to develop some really wonderful complexity after time in the glass

This starting block for the other entries in the Lalique series that followed remains the ultimate in prestige and one of the best Macallans ever bottled

Distilled Year 1973 Bottling Year 2019

A single cask Tormore 1995 24-year-old Speyside single malt whisky released by indie bottlers Gordon & MacPhail as part of their Connoisseurs Choice Cask Strength series back in 2019