Glen Grant 1954 (Gordon MacPhail)

Merry Christmas everyone!

Another example of sherry maturation, this time in a first-fill sherry cask. We’re trying a Glen Grant 1954 from the Rare Vintage series by Gordon & MacPhail .

In partnership with each respective distillery, all whiskies in the Rare Vintage range are uniquely labelled. In years gone by many of these unique designs were used ‘officially’ to bottle the whisky under licence from the distillery (the same goes for yesterday’s Ardmore 1996 by the way).

I don’t think this is a new bottling. The bottling date wasn’t mentioned on the sample and I can only find...