{"product_id":"lochside-31-year-old-1991-gordon-macphail-connoisseurs-choice-recollection-series-2-single-refill-bourbon-barrel-15194-highland-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2023-70cl","title":"Lochside 31 Year Old 1991 Gordon \u0026 Macphail Connoisseurs Choice Recollection Series 2 Single Refill Bourbon Barrel #15194 Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2023) 70cl","description":"\u003ch2\u003eLochside 31 Year Old 1991 Gordon \u0026amp; Macphail Connoisseurs Choice Recollection Series 2 Single Refill Bourbon Barrel #15194 Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2023) 70cl\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 of 57 bottles from a single bourbon barrel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArguably the most famous independent bottler of Scotch whisky there is. Gordon \u0026amp; 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 \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-page-layout__content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Connoisseurs Choice series is known for independently bottling carefully selected individual casks to showcase distillery character and cask influence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTASTING NOTES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNose:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Mellow vanilla notes give way to waxy lemon peel and dried exotic fruits with a touch of ginger\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePalate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSweet and fruity with peach and passionfruit followed by hints of blackcurrant liquorice and pepper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinish:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMedium with subtle lingering herbal notes. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout Lochside\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLochside's imposing white tower was once unmissable, but is now sadly missed from the Montrose landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot commonly seen these days, but the few bottlings which have appeared showed it to be a medium-bodied malt with plenty of orchard fruitiness in the mid-palate. A significant number of bottlings have come from Sherry casks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you had journeyed to Montrose up until 2005 you would have seen Lochside distillery. In fact, you might even have stopped your car just to gawp at the white tower which sat above the town. It was unlike any distillery built before, or since. The tower had nothing to do with whisky, but students of brewery architecture will recognise it as a classic German\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ebrauhaus,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein this case reinterpreted by none other than Charles Doig in 1899. His design wasn’t an accident – Lochside indeed was a brewery from 1786 until its closure in 1957.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe site was then bought by Joseph Hobbs who by then was the owner of Ben Nevis. Hobbs had spent much of the 1940s working as an agent for National Distillers of America’s Scottish arm, Train \u0026amp; Macintyre, and had already brought two east coast distilleries – Glenury Royal and Glenesk – under their control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen he bought Lochside he installed a Coffey still – four pots were add in 1961 – and began selling and trading both, as well as blending the two as new makes for the distillery’s Sandy McNab blend. The practise was stopped on Hobbs’ death in 1964.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis son, Joe Junior, retained ownership until 1973 when Spanish distiller Destilerias y Crianzas [DyC] bought it as a source for the some of the malt it used in its top-selling DYC blend. The Coffey still was decommissioned and the distillery ran until the early 1990s when DYC [by then part of Sherry and wine firm Pedro Domecq] was itself taken over by Allied Distillers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLochside was considered surplus to requirements by its new parent and with most whisky firms being leery about adding capacity so soon after the slump, it was closed and sold to developers who, sadly, didn’t have the wit to retain the landmark tower in their designs and in 2005 it was demolished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pagenav js-fixed\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e47.1% ABV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e70cl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lochside","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53009967055186,"sku":"G\u0026MLOCHS31CC1991","price":1499.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/9737\/9666\/files\/Lochside31YearOld1991Gordon_MacphailConnoisseursChoiceRecollectionSeries2SingleRefillBourbonBarrel_15194HighlandSingleMaltScotchWhisky_2023_70cl.jpg?v=1774234474","url":"https:\/\/whiskysituation.co.uk\/products\/lochside-31-year-old-1991-gordon-macphail-connoisseurs-choice-recollection-series-2-single-refill-bourbon-barrel-15194-highland-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2023-70cl","provider":"Whisky Situation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}