Glenburgie 1964 Gordon & MacPhail Private Collection 59 yo

 

 

 

52,9°

Distillery : Glenburgie - Speyside

1st Fill Sherry Hogshead

Independent Bottling 

By Gordon & MacPhail

Limited Edition 

Single Cask 

Bottled in 2023

Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength

Totally Unpeated

 

 

 

Distilled on 8 January 1964 and bottled on 16 August 2023, this one has spent exactly 59 years, 7 months and 8 days in a 1st Fill Sherry Hogshead. The length of a lifetime. Of course, every effort has been made to ensure that the spirit is kept in optimum conditions, with no chill filtration or colouring, and the 141 bottles that have reached us must live up to what age inspires in us, a profound respect. Thank you to Gordon & MacPhail for creating such a rarity, and above all thank you for opening a bottle to share it with ordinary whisky-lovers. A real class act.

 

 

 

Let's Taste It : 

Very clean profile, precious wood that is totally smooth and untreated, great breadth and depth of aromas, exotic fruit that gradually reveals itself, mango, papaya, pineapple, stewed fruit sprinkled with cinnamon and slivered ginger, mirabelle plums, cooked apples, pears and figs. Finally, candied fruit, cherries, angelica and grapes. An ounce of vanilla and citrus to top it all off, semi-salted butter on thick slices of bread. On the palate, dried fruit, bananas, dates, quetsche clafoutis, dark chocolate, coffee grounds. Roasted hazelnuts and cashews, very long spices, nutmeg, white pepper. Powerful, extremely long finish, heather, orange peel, a pinch of sea salt, dry earth, fluffy sand.   

 

In Short, 

It was a great privilege, but above all a great opportunity, to be there and to taste such a nectar. Unfortunately, a single centilitre didn't allow me to discover all its secrets, far from it. I really did get the feeling of something smooth and uncluttered, something peaceful, like a vast landscape of plains as far as the eye could see. I was surprised by the power of the finish after all these years. This is a truly exceptional whisky, unique in the world. And the intergalactic price reflects this anomaly, this prodigious character.

Score : 93

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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