Ardbeg 12 years 1972 Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice

  • 40% |
  • 0.75L

Ardbeg distilled in 1972 and aged for 12 years by independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail. Gordon & MacPhail was founded in Elgin in 1895 by James Gordon and John Alexander MacPhail. As was often the case at the time, the business started out as a delicatessen and wine merchant. In 1915, John Alexande…More info

Description du lot

  • Distillery: Ardbeg
  • Appellation: Pure Malt Whisky
  • Country/Region: Scotland , Islay
  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 base of neck
  • State: 1 slightly damaged capsule, 1 very slightly marked label, 1 very slightly scuffed label, 1 slightly folded label

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Ardbeg 12 years 1972 Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice

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Ardbeg distilled in 1972 and aged for 12 years by independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail. Gordon & MacPhail was founded in Elgin in 1895 by James Gordon and John Alexander MacPhail. As was often the case at the time, the business started out as a delicatessen and wine merchant. In 1915, John Alexander MacPhail retired and a new partner joined the business, John Urquhart. He was joined by his son George in 1933, a few years after James Gordon died in a car crash. Gordon & MacPhail works with many of Speyside’s leading distilleries, from whom it has accumulated considerable stocks. It is also licensed to bottle whiskies for many of them, including Glen Grant, Linkwood, Mortlach, Macallan and Glenlivet. The business really took off in the 1970s, acquiring distributors in a huge range of countries and selling casks to several Italian bottlers in selections that would become legends in their own right. Gordon & MacPhail is still run by the Urquhart family today, from the same building, and is one of the most iconic bottlers in the industry, with incredible stocks of sometimes very old and rare whiskies. The company is in complete control of the entire maturation process. Gordon & MacPhail has also owned the Benromach distillery since 1993.

The distillery Ardbeg

Scotland, Isle of Islay. Distillery operational. Owner: LVMH - Diageo

Founded in 1815 by McDougall & Co. in the south-east of Islay, near the Kildalton Cross, Ardbeg's malt was for a long time overshadowed by its neighbours and competitors Lagavulin and Laphroaig.It was under the patronage of the McDonald family (Glenmorangie Plc), who bought the distillery in 1997, that it was able to develop its potential and introduce the public to the treasures sleeping in its vaults. Between September and November 1997, no less than three bottlings - two of which would become great classics - were released on the market, the Ardbeg 17 Year Old, Ardbeg 1978 and Ardbeg Provenance 1974. The following decade was rich in single cask, cask strength bottlings matured in sherry and bourbon casks, each more impressive than the next. And it was dressed in a new green bottle with confident Celtic-Gothic aesthetics that Ardbeg flooded the market for fans of malts dominated by aromas of smoke, peat and tiger balm.

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Detailed characteristics

  • Distillery: Ardbeg
  • Vintage: 1972
  • Bottler: Gordon & MacPhail
  • Age: 12 years
  • Appellation: Pure Malt Whisky
  • Country/Region: Scotland , Islay
  • Alcohol percentage: 40 %
  • Volume: 0.75L
  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 base of neck
  • State: 1 slightly damaged capsule, 1 very slightly marked label, 1 very slightly scuffed label, 1 slightly folded label
  • Case: No
  • Origin: Private individual
  • Recoverable VAT: No
  • Color: Brown

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