Product description
Glen Calder is a long-discontinued blended whisky brand from the Gordon & MacPhail portfolio.
Its name, contrary to appearances, does not refer to a place, but to the surname of a 17th-century MP, James Calder, representing the Royal Burgh of Elgin. His residence was supposedly located on North Street, near the Gordon & MacPhail store. Gordon & MacPhail was founded in 1895 in Elgin (many Speyside distilleries had their sales offices there) by James Gordon and Alexander MacPhail, who were soon joined by a young assistant, John Urquhart. The Urquharts became sole owners of the company in the 1930s and are still the only members of its supervisory board. One of G&M's ironclad rules was to buy distillate directly from the distillery and age it in its own warehouses.
Glen Calder 1949 is the most unique blend in our collection. It is one of a handful of blends labelled "vintage" and one of a handful of "40-year-old vintage blends". We don't know much about its formula, but from the little information we've managed to gather it is "an elegant, raisinous blend from the old school, with the grain whisky almost undetectable". We've heard that the entire run was limited to a few hundred bottles.