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Gordon & MacPhail bottles 72YO Glen Grant Scotch 18th January, 2021 by Owen Bellwood Scotch whisky bottler Gordon & MacPhail will debut its 72-year-old Glen Grant single malt at a Bonhams Hong Kong auction later this month. Gordon & MacPhail has bottled a Glen Grant Scotch whisky from 1948 The Gordon & MacPhail 72 Year Old was distilled by Speyside producer Glen Grant in 1948. The whisky has since matured in an American oak ex-Sherry cask, which imparted ‘a deep amber hue’. On the nose, the whisky has aromas of Christmas cake moistened with oloroso Sherry, with a slightly burnt base. On...

Whisky is big business, and no more so than in 2020 it seems. With distilleries temporarily closing due to Covid restrictions and production slowing, casks produced in 2020 are predicted to become some of the rarest and most valuable in the future, believes cask whisky investment company Whiskey and Wealth Club. While it will be some years before that prediction is proven true, 2020 has certainly been tumultuous, which could well see it remembered as a “significant time for the history of the whisky industry”, the company has said. Predicting the future’s big selling drams is an inheren...