The ReCollection Series #3   

Since 1895, Gordon & MacPhail has been driven by a simple mission: To create Single Malt Scotch Whiskies of exceptional quality in their own casks. The Recollection Series revives the spirit and character of now closed or long time silent Scottish Distilleries. Series #3 features six single cask whiskies from Rosebank, Glenlochy, Port Ellen, North Port, Imperial and Convalmore Distilleries, each bottled at cask strength.

Working with Emmy award-winning illustrator, Bruno Mangyoku, these distilleries have been brought back to life through artworks which celebrate their former glory. These vanishingly rare whiskies provide a unique opportunity to enjoy forgotten masterpieces

Rosebank Distillery 1991
32 Year Old
£2100.00

The history of Rosebank Distillery has been directly linked with the Forth & Clyde canal which sits in its shadow. The waterway linked Scotland’s west and east coasts, and therefore its two main cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

A distillery called Rosebank was operating as early as 1817. From 1840, under the ownership of the Rankine family, Rosebank prospered. The canal, however, became neglected and the distillery eventually closed its doors in 1993. It was reopened under new ownership to great fanfare in 2024.

This release, a lost work of art, is one of the oldest and rarest Rosebank single malts ever released.

Convalmore 1984 39 Year Old
£2300.00

Opened as the fourth of Dufftown’s famed seven stills in the heart of Speyside in 1894, Convalmore’s waxy, fruity spirit has very rarely been seen as a single malt whisky. Dedicated almost entirely to blended whiskies, production was interrupted in 1909 by a fire.

The distillery expanded in 1964 but was mothballed in 1985. The original buildings are still on the site but the production equipment has been removed. This 39 year old single malt, matured in a bespoke Gordon & MacPhail cask, is a forgotten masterpiece; a lost work of art that revives the spirit of a bygone era

Glenlochy 1979 44 Year Old
£4000.00

Founded in 1898, on the banks of the River Nevis shortly after the completion of the West Highland Railway, Glenlochy was well positioned to transport its whisky to Glasgow. The bulk of spirit from its stills was destined for blends so any release featuring the distillery name is extremely rare.

Glenlochy was eventually closed in 1983 and sold for redevelopment as a hotel in 1991. All of the original buildings have since been demolished apart from the kiln building, but within this single malt,its spirit endures

North Port Distillery
1981 44 Year Old

£3850.00

Single malts featuring the distillery’s original name, Brechin Distillery, are vanishingly rare. Founded in 1820 near Scotland’s east coast by three brothers, David, John and Alexander Guthrie,the distillery stood half a mile from the River Esk.

It remained in family ownership for over a century, renamed North Port Distillery, before new owners closed its doors in 1928. It reopened after the Second World War only to fall silent again in 1983, with the site demolished in 1994.

Whisky writer, Michael Jackson, described its spirit as ‘dry and fruity’ and this whisky, matured in a Gordon & MacPhail cask, is a forgotten masterpiece that revives the spirit of a bygone age.