GLENLIVET DISTILLERY

43 Year Old 1978 Private Collection

Cask #13553

1978 Private Collection refill sherry butt #13553, 55.2%. Glenlivet 43 Year Old 1978 vintage Speyside single malt Scotch whisky. Single cask refill sherry butt #13553 distilled 1978 and bottled December 2021 by Gordon & MacPhail for the Private Collection series. 262 hand-blown crystal decanters have been produced.

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Plump sultana and cinnamon spice aromas are followed by hint of beeswax polish. Light clementine notes develop accompanied by Demerara sugar and sweet fruitcake.

Smooth Seville orange flavours lead to chilli spice and seet treacle. Black pepper comes to the core alongside plum and charred oak.

A full finish with lingering roasted nuts.

Having out-grown his distillery at Upper Drumin George Smith built a new distillery in 1858 at Minore just short distance upstream of the River Livet and which he opened the following year and named Glenlivet Distillery. During the 1850s the Edinburgh firm of Andrew Usher produced the first vatting of malt whisky from a single distillery using a number of different vintages of Glenlivet whisky. Following expansion in 2010 this distillery is now equipped with fourteen stills making it one of the largest malt whisky distilleries in Scotland. The range includes Glenlivet Founders Reserve and Nadurra.