80 Years of Patience Pays Off for Gordon & MacPhail (Episode 895: September 6, 2021)

On a cold, wintry Scottish day in February of 1940, one of Gordon & MacPhail’s Sherry casks was filled with new make spirit at Glenlivet Distillery. That cask lasted through wars, recessions, and a couple of generations of Urquhart family members to become the oldest Scotch Whisky ever bottled: the Gordon & MacPhail Generations Glenlivet 80 Years Old. Stephen Rankin of Gordon & MacPhail joins us on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth to share the story behind this rare whisky…and we’ll taste it, too! In the news, global shortages of glass bottles and packaging materials caused by the pandemic are about to result in higher whisky prices, while Diageo has opened its new Johnnie Walker experience in Edinburgh and Beam a new distillery in Kentucky. We’ll also look at a unique way to add the character of a wood to whisky when it’s impossible to actually make a cask from that wood.

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