Glenlivet 1978 Private Collection

43 Year Old 1978 Private Collection

Cask #9044402

43 Year Old Private Collection from G&M. Matured in a refill sherry hogshead #9044402. Distilled 30th August 1978 and bottled 9th December 2021. 310 hand-blown crystal decanters at 54.3%. Glenlivet 43 Year Old 1978 vintage Speyside single malt Scotch whisky. Single cask refill sherry hogshead #9044402 distilled 30th August 1978 and bottled 9th December 2021 by Gordon & MacPhail for the Private Collection series. 310 hand-blown crystal decanters have been produced.

Stewed raisin aromas combine with orange peel and faint notes of beeswax polish. Baked spiced apples give to vanilla pod and soft nutmeg. Cinnamon spice flavours are followed by marmalade and toasted almonds. Roasted coffee beans come to the fore, leading to Morello cherry and hazelnuts.A long finish with sultanas and a sweet sherry influence.

£2,450 | €2,428* | u$2,664* | c$3,402*

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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.