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Glenfiddich "Rare Collection - Single Cask" Single Malt 1975
Numbered Bottle 496 of 850 - Bottled 2009 - 34 Years
Estimated Retail Price $750 per bottle.
Thursday we're pouring an ounce for $21.75
In July, 1969, Glenfiddich distillery opened Scotland’s first Distillery Visitor Center and became the first whisky company to invite visitors to tour a distillery. Forty years later, five former and current tour directors joined Malt Master, David Stewart, to choose their favorite cask from 1975. The panel selected a single cask: a European oak sherry but with a strength of 53.7% alcohol by volume.
David describes the selection thus: "Glenfiddich Vintage Reserve 1975 has a rich, vibrant aroma of ripe apricots and plums, balanced by vanilla oak notes from the European oak cask. The taste is tremendously full bodied, with layers of tannin, spice and fruity sweetness. The flavour of rich oak and soft vanilla develops a spicy character of cinnamon, nutmeg and spiced apple and has an exceptionally long, rich and oaky finish with a hint of bitter dark chocolate. In short, I think this whisky has aged magnificently, with every year spent in the oak sherry butt imparting delicate notes and flavours."
When many distilleries are facing shortages of aged whisky, with some even removing the age message from their bottles, the Glenfiddich Vintage Reserve 1975 is testament to the pioneering spirit of founder, William Grant. Tonight at 6:30, we will open one precious numbered bottle of this fine whisky to serve at our cost. We've worked with our purveyors to bring it to you this very rare taste. When it's gone, it's gone.
William Grant built the Glenfiddich Distillery in 1887, with his seven sons. It's changed very little since then. It is one of the few distilleries left that still employs a team of coopers to mend and tend every cask, a dedicated coppersmith to maintain the stills and the only Highland malt to use a single source of pure spring water (from the Robbie Dhu spring) throughout every stage of production.
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