GLENLIVET 40 YEAR OLD 1978 PRIVATE COLLECTION at The Whisky Barrel – Scotch Whisky News
Glenlivet 40 Year Old
1978 vintage stunningly heavily sherried Speysider for G&M’s Private Collection. 53.5%, 319 bottles. Glenlivet 40 Year Old 1978 vintage Speyside single malt Scotch whisky. Single cask refill sherry hogshead #9044401 bottled October 2018 by Gordon & MacPhail for the Private Collection series. 319 bottles.
AROMA: SWEET SHERRIED AROMAS WEAVE INTO LAYERS OF ROASTED HAZELNUT, SOFT FUDGE , MILK CHOCOLATE , AND PLUMP, RUM-SOAKED RAISINS . FLASHES OF FRESH CITRUS PEEL BREAKTHROUGH AND, COMBINED WITH POLISH NOTES, BALANCE THE SWEETNESS.
TASTE: SMOOTH AND SPICY; WARM DEMERARA SUGAR D I S PER S E S OVER WARMING CHILLI, CINNAMON, AND CLOVE SPICE FLAVOURS . INTENSE, THICK-CUT ORANGE MARMALADE NOTES UNFOLD INTO A LINGERING CHARRED OAK EDGE .
FINISH: LONG , SPICY, REFINED, AND WELL-BALANCED.
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.
