GLENLIVET DISTILLERY

45 Year Old 1976 Private Collection

Cask #21602601

£2,750.00

Glenlivet 45 Year Old 1976 vintage Speyside single malt Scotch whisky. Single cask refill sherry hogshead #21602601 distilled 30th January 1976 and bottled 15th November 2021 by Gordon & MacPhail for the Private Collection series. 266 hand-blown crystal decanters have been produced.

Sweet citrus notes are followed by rich fruitcake and butterscotch. Cinnamon and ginger spice complement subtle liquorice and oak.

Smooth tobacco flavours give way to rich raisins and subtle white pepper. Stewed fruits combine with walnut and plum.

A long finish with roasted nuts and fresh garden mint.

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.