GORDON & MACPHAIL 49 Year Old Glen Mhor 1973 Private Collection (2023) Cask #85026801 at The Whisky Barrel – Scotch Whisky News
GLEN MHOR DISTILLERY
49 Year Old 1973 Private Collection (2023)
Cask #85026801
£6,000.00
1973 vintage from Glen Mhor Distillery which closed in 1983 and was demolished in 1988. Highly prized, rare casks having been one of the pioneering distilleries to release single malt whisky in the 1960s.
Matured in a refill sherry hogshead #85036801, yielding just 170 bottles at 47.2%. Bottled history.
Nose: Sweet stewed raisin aromas complement morello cherry and cocoa powder. Treacle toffee develops alongside soft polish and mature oak.
Taste: Seville orange zest combines with brown sugar and berry compote. Notes of baked apple come to the fore accompanied by a hint of menthol.
Finish: Long and full with lingering spice and citrus.
John Birnie and James Mackinlay commissioned Charles C. Doig to design Glen Mhor Distillery which was found in 1892 and constructed at Muirton Basin on the Caledonian Canal in Inverness. Glen Mhor Distillery was a Highland malt whisky distillery equipped with two stills and one of the pioneering distilleries to release single malt whisky back in the 1960s. Closed in 1983, dismantled in 1986, demolished 1988 and now one of Scotland’s lost malt whisky distilleries. With stock dwindling bottlings of Glen Mhor are highly prized particularly those released by Gordon & MacPhail.
