Inchgower

Inchgower 26 Year Old 1998 Gordon & Macphail Single Refill Sherry Butt #11274 UK Exclusive Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2025) 70cl

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Inchgower 26 Year Old 1998 Gordon & Macphail Single Refill Sherry Butt #11274 UK Exclusive Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2025) 70cl 1 of 533 bottles produced from an single...

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Inchgower 26 Year Old 1998 Gordon & Macphail Single Refill Sherry Butt #11274 UK Exclusive Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2025) 70cl
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Inchgower 26 Year Old 1998 Gordon & Macphail Single Refill Sherry Butt #11274 UK Exclusive Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2025) 70cl

1 of 533 bottles produced from an single sherry butt. We wish there was more and so will you when you see how good this dram is! Musky and dignified! 

Arguably the most famous independent bottler of Scotch whisky there is. Gordon & MacPhail was founded in Elgin in 1895 by James Gordon and John Alexander MacPhail. It is now owned by the Urquhart Family who have bow bottled over 350 different expressions from around 69 different distilleries. Gordon & MacPhail is the Trading name of Speymalt Whiskies while also owning the Benromach distillery, which they purchased in 1993. Some of the brands include Connoisseurs Choice, Cask Strength, Rare Old and Speymalt.

The Connoisseurs Choice series is known for independently bottling carefully selected individual casks to showcase distillery character and cask influence. 

TASTING NOTES

Nose: Faint smell of museum, rich milk chocolate with stewed raisins and dried fig. Treacle toffee, roasted coffee bean and subtle citrus with a mild vanilla note. 

Palate: This is where it gets you! Spicy oak flavours, stewed plum, slightly darker side of milk chocolate, old musk taste reminding you of 70s bottles, Seville orange and black pepper. 

Finish: Full and spicy with lingering citrus and soft aniseed.

About Inchgower

Located just outside the fishing port of Buckie, Inchgower is a defiantly coastal style of single malt. No other new make reaches the same level of intense spiciness which is perceived on the tongue as salinity.

The spicy character is driven initially by a hotter than usual second water during the quick mashing regime which cuts back any overt nuttiness. Fermentation is short and the steeply angled lyne arms on the stills help to capture weightier elements. An underlying waxiness flashes a signal to another coastal plant, Clynelish.

Built in 1871 by Alexander Wilson, this is one of the few distilleries to have been owned by the local town council which stepped in to save the plant in 1936 when the Wilson family went bankrupt. Two years later, Arthur Bell bought it for the princely sum of £3,000. With the absorption of Bell’s into Guinness and the subsequent purchase by that firm of DCL, Inchgower became part of what is now Diageo.

It has always been a significant player in blends, in this case Bell’s, whose own distilleries all shared variations on the ‘nutty-spicy' theme. It also plays a role within the Walker range.

Built in 1871 by Alexander Wilson, this is one of the few distilleries to have been owned by the local town council which stepped in to save the plant in 1936 when the Wilson family went bankrupt. Two years later, Arthur Bell bought it for the princely sum of £3,000. With the absorption of Bell’s into Guinness and the subsequent purchase by that firm of DCL, Inchgower became part of what is now Diageo.

It has always been a significant player in blends, in this case Bell’s, whose own distilleries all shared variations on the ‘nutty-spicy' theme. It also plays a role within the Walker range.

One of Diageo’s ‘Flora & Fauna’ range, it is occasionally found (with varying degrees of salinity) from independent bottlers

54.8% ABV

70cl

Product specifications table
Specification name Specification Value
Country Scotland
Region Speyside
Whiskey style Single malt, Single cask, Cask strength
Whiskey variety Scotch

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