Knockdhu 1974 Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice bottled 1991

  • 40% |
  • 0.70L

A single malt from Knockdhu distilled in 1974 and bottled in 1991 by Gordon & MacPhail as part of the Connoisseurs Choice range. 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 a…More info

Description du lot

  • Distillery: Knockdhu (alias An Cnoc)
  • Appellation: Single Malt Whisky
  • Country/Region: Scotland Highlands
  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 into-neck
  • State: 1 slightly marked label, 1 good appearance

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Lot presentation
Knockdhu 1974 Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice bottled 1991

Cuvée presentation

A single malt from Knockdhu distilled in 1974 and bottled in 1991 by Gordon & MacPhail as part of the Connoisseurs Choice range. 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 Knockdhu (alias An Cnoc)

Scotland, Speyside. Distillery operational. Owner: Inver House Distillers Ltd

Knockdhu can lay claim to being one of very few Scottish distilleries built at the initiative of a group (1898 by John Haig & Co, Distillers Company Ltd) and to have been bought only once in its lifetime (Inver House Distillers in 1988). 90 years of stability and production in the shadow of internationally renowned blends such as Haig. Nonetheless, only a handful of own-name Knockdhu bottlings exist, with the majority released by independent bottlers.In fact, it was only under its assumed name, An Cnoc, and at the initiative of its new owners, that the distillery became known in 1993. One name, one brand, jealously guarded, as no independent bottlings exist, save for those granted to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society.

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Detailed characteristics

  • Distillery: Knockdhu (alias An Cnoc)
  • Vintage: 1974
  • Bottler: Gordon & MacPhail
  • Appellation: Single Malt Whisky
  • Country/Region: Scotland Highlands
  • Alcohol percentage: 40 %
  • Volume: 0.70L
  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 into-neck
  • State: 1 slightly marked label, 1 good appearance
  • Case: No
  • Origin: Private individual
  • Recoverable VAT: No
  • Color: Brown

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