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Age 48 Years
Outturn 219 Bottles
Volume 70CL
Strength 57.2% ABV
Colour Mahogany

A Breath of Fresh Air

48 Year Old

A Different World

A Different World

This remarkable 1977 Single Grain carries with it a uniquely prominent thyme character that reflects both the nature of the base spirit and the nurturing of that spirit over time in cask.
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Tasting Notes

  • Oak

  • Herbal

  • Sherbet

  • Brown Sugar

The Finer Details

Distilled from a maize base on Girvan’s highly regarded original ‘one apps’, this Single Grain Scotch Whisky benefited from an unusual offtake point, leading to pronounced green notes in the new make profile, which evolved over 48 years in a single first refill sherry butt into the whisky we have today.

Nose

The nose is greeted by a wonderfully subtle sherry character, notes of thyme and a pleasing sherbet sweetness developing with a drop of water.​

Palate

The palate is rich, oaky and delicately spiced with yet more of that thyme character meandering slowly into notes of well steeped herbal tea on the aftertaste. A true one of a kind from an era of distillation that will never be seen again.

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The Charles Gordon Collection

Rare and old whiskies laid down over fifty years ago by prior generations of the Gordon family. The most precious stocks within the collection.

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