John Urquhart learned from James Gordon, and George Urquhart learned from his father - by the end of his life he was universally recognised as one of the most knowledgeable people in the entire Scotch whisky trade. He passed on his skills and experience in selecting and evaluating whiskies to his sons and daughter - and their children might be said to have whisky in the blood!

On 24th May 1895, the Elgin Courant reported the opening "in New, Centrical, and Commodious Premises, No's 38 and 40 South Street... a Family Grocers, Tea, Wine & Spirit Merchants".

Gordon and MacPhail bottles over 300 expressions of single malt Scotch Whisky from distilleries throughout Scotland. 

The Generations range, launched in 2010 is the pinnacle of our portfolio. This range will contain some of the rarest and most unique whiskies in the world.

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It was always the ambition of John Urquhart and subsequent generations of the Urquhart family that one day Gordon & MacPhail would own and manage a distillery of its own.