The newest single malt in a collection of timeless classics to emerge from the Gordon & MacPhail warehouse is a lately launched 64-year-old whisky.
This uncommon and aged spirit is known as in honor of George Urquhart, a member of the second technology of the corporate’s proudly owning household and the person who helped carry single malt whisky to the world.
The Gordon & MacPhail “Mr George Legacy 1957 from Glen Grant Distillery” is the second expression to be launched as a part of the whisky maker’s annual Legacy collection.
Gordon & MacPhail “Mr George Legacy 1957 from Glen Grant Distillery” (picture through Gordon & MacPhail)
It was laid down 64 years in the past whereas “Mr George” (as he was recognized to mates), was on the helm of the enterprise. Simply 298 bottles of this single cask whisky can be found, highlighting the rarity of this classic from Speyside’s Glen Grant Distillery.
Notes from the distiller state that the Mr George Legacy 1957 from Glen Grant Distillery celebrates Mr George’s long-term method to maturation, the place he was guided by the philosophy that whiskies take so long as they should mature into the right dram.
Distilled on Thursday, Oct. tenth, 1957, and spending its whole maturation in cask no. 3483, a first-fill Sherry butt, the second version of the Legacy Collection was bottled on Tuesday, Nov. ninth, 2021, at a cask power of 56.1% ABV.
It has a prompt retail value of £6,000.
The distiller’s notes present that on the nostril, the mahogany-colored whisky releases aromas of fruitcake, festive spices, marmalade and treacle. On the palate are notes of morello cherries, tobacco and backyard mint, adopted by ripe pink apple, citrus peel and delicate aniseed. It finishes with lingering notes of spice, forest fruits and charred oak.
Stuart Urquhart, grandson of Mr George and Gordon & MacPhail’s Operations Director, mentioned in a ready assertion, “In some business quarters my grandfather was fondly considered barely eccentric attributable to his relentless deal with maturation, painstakingly deciding on the best cask to match with every specific spirit. He was intrigued to know the way lengthy the whisky may take to succeed in its peak and would have recognized he won’t be round when that second got here. That’s his legacy to our household and to whisky drinkers who love the wealthy complexity of the ultra-aged single malts he laid down a long time in the past.”
Urquhart mentioned that this newest launch within the Legacy collection comes from Glen Grant distillery, for which his grandfather had a specific affinity.
“Native to us in Speyside, Glen Grant was the primary distillery to make use of a air purifier in distillation which resulted in a lighter spirit. Again within the Fifties, the spirit would have been barely smoky attributable to ground maltings and a small degree of peat getting used, giving this whisky a charred oakiness that’s completely balanced by long-term maturation in a Sherry cask manufactured from American oak,” he mentioned.
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