Product description
The Glenlivet Distillery's partnership with Gordon & MacPhail spans decades.
The company was founded in 1895 and is now probably the most recognizable independent whisky bottler. It has thousands of barrels of distillates in its warehouses and, as early as the 1950s, it distributed single malts under agreements with distilleries. Several distilleries, including Glenlivet, have signed contracts allowing their whiskies to be included in the Distillery Labels series. Each of them is assigned a unique label, in the case of Glenlivet decorated with the image of a lion.
Whisky distilled before the Second World War is now more than just a rarity. In 1938 the Glenlivet Distillery was still a family operation and produced a fraction of what it does today using malted barley in its own malt house (which closed in 1966). Unfortunately, we didn’t get to taste this piece of history, all we heard was that it was an unusual combination of dried fruit, almonds, honeycomb, a good cigar, wax and old Sauternes.