Private
Collection 1943
from Glenlivet Distillery
Rarity
exemplified
Private Collection 1943 from Glenlivet Distillery is quite simply one of the rarest Scotch whiskies ever bottled.
This whisky was distilled at the Glenlivet Distillery during at the height of the Second World War when only a handful of distilleries in Scotland produced whisky. On the 14th January 1943, Cask 121, a first fill Sherry hogshead selected by John and George Urquhart, was filled with new-make spirit and carefully stowed at the distillery.
With great patience the whisky matured for over seventy years; the first twenty-four years Cask 121 rested at the distillery before being transferred, in 1967, to Gordon & MacPhail’s warehouses in Elgin. Forty-six years later, the cask, selected by Stephen Rankin, John Urquhart's great-grandson, was emptied and the rare elixir finally bottled on the 11th June 2013.
The meandering River Spey provides a unique closure to the handcrafted wooden box. Hand blown and bespoke, the decanter’s base and stopper are adorned with gold engravings of the land contours surrounding the Glenlivet Distillery.
Every detail of Private Collection 1943 from Glenlivet Distillery alludes to the decades of experience and patience poured into nurturing the whisky to maturation.
Cask Type
DISTILLATION DATE
AGE
MOVED FROM GLENLIVET DISTILLERY TO ELGIN
BOTTLING DATE
NUMBER OF DECANTERS
STRENGTH
COLOUR
Tasting note by Stephen Rankin
NOSE
PALATE
FINISH
WITH WATER
Stephen Rankin, Director & fourth generation of the Urquhart family
Last ever cask of Glenlivet 1943 by Gordon & MacPhail
Cask 121 laid down during The Second World War
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