Glenlivet 74 Year Old 1949 Gordon & Macphail Halo Collection Single Refill Sherry Butt #11 Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2023) 70cl

1 of 192 bottles produced from a single sherry butt.

The Glenlivet 1949 74 Years from Gordon & MacPhail was laid down in a refill sherry butt on New Years’ Day 1949 and bottled on 6th March 2023. Well over seven decades later the outturn is 192 bottles at a cask strength of 49.3%. The suggested retail price is £35,000. Making things even slightly more interesting: this single malt is the company’s last ever 1949 cask from Glenlivet Distillery. Now, who knows how much other whisky they’ve got lying around from that time period. If not from Glenlivet, then from other distillery’s. And if not from 1949, then from other vintages.

Arguably the most famous independent bottler of Scotch whisky there is. Gordon & MacPhail was founded in Elgin in 1895 by James Gordon and John Alexander MacPhail. It is now owned by the Urquhart Family who have bow bottled over 350 different expressions from around 69 different distilleries. Gordon & MacPhail is the Trading name of Speymalt Whiskies while also owning the Benromach distillery, which they purchased in 1993. Some of the brands include Connoisseurs Choice, Cask Strength, Rare Old and Speymalt.

About Glenlivet

49.3% ABV

70cl