Glen Grant 1956-2008 | 51 Year Old Gordon & MacPhail Cask 4442+4446Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky Bottled by: Gordon & MacPhail 70cl 40% An old 1956 Glen Grant bottled in 2008 as a 51 year old by Gordon & MacPhail for the Distillery Labels series from their seemingly inexhaustible supply of incredible old casks from this great distillery. This 51 year old Glen Grant 1956 came from a microbatch of two sister first fill sherry butts numbered 4442 and 4446. A magnificent bottling, absolutely alive with intense fruit

soft phenol notes and touches of rancio

and which probably contained Ferintosh Whisky

It has been produced in a Limited Edition to mark the 250th Anniversary of the Bottle of Culloden in association with the National Museums of Scotland where the original is displayed

distilled and filled to cask in Summer 2006

This is just one of several utterly stunning Ardbegs from this era by Cadenhead's

The Glenfarclas 150th Anniversary Edition was one of 6000 bottled in 1986 from a vatting of some of the best sherry casks in the distillery's warehouses

it exhilarates and it delivers – big time

Signatory Vintage have selected this cask as part of their Rare Reserve release of very old single malts

Distillery Bottling 70cl / 40

which is every inch the case with this amazing bottling

clear and bright

and rewards a little quiet contemplation