GORDON & MACPHAIL GLEN ALBYN DISTILLERY 43 Year Old 1979 Private Collection (2023) Cask #3857 at The Whisky Barrel – Scotch Whisky News
GLEN ALBYN DISTILLERY 43 Year Old 1979 Private Collection (2023) Cask #3857
£3,500.00
1979 vintage from this very rare lost distillery which was demolished 1986. Sherry puncheon #3857 at 56.4% and only 95 bottles. Glen Albyn 43 Year Old 1979 vintage Highland single malt Scotch whisky. Single refill Sherry puncheon #3857. Distilled 19th September 1979 & bottled 9th January 2023 by Gordon & MacPhail for the Private Collection Lost Distilleries Recollection Series #2. Just 95 hand-blown crystal decanters have been produced.
Nose: Rich roast coffee aromas give way to fruitcake. Subtle spice and beeswax polish notes. Treacle toffee and charred oak with a hint of dark chocolate.
Taste: Smooth with dried fig, ark cherries and oramge peel followed by dark chocolate flavours tempered by cracked black pepper and charred oak.
Finish: Full bodied finish revealing lasting hints of oak and liquorice.
Glen Albyn Distillery was established in 1844 on the east bank of the Caledonian Canal in Inverness. Whilst the canal opened in 1822 in order to facilitate a short cut between the Atlantic Ocean and North Sea for our navy during the Napoleonic wars, it provided ready access for shipping raw materials in and whisky casks out when the distillery opened. Glen Albyn Distillery closed in 1983 and was demolished in 1986 although some fragments of its old walls can still be found. Albyn Distillery is a lost Scottish Highland malt whisky distillery and releases are scarce with Gordon & MacPhails 1976 Rare Old an example.
