Archives Glenlivet 39 YO 1979

DISTILLED: 24th September 1979 BOTTLED: 12th October 2018 AGE: 39 Years Old CASK TYPE: Refill American Hogshead CASK #: 19233 COLOUR: Amber STRENGTH: 46.2% OUTTURN: 37 Bottles

FOR MORE THAN 120 YEARS, GORDON & MACPHAIL HAS BEEN DRIVEN BY A SIMPLE MISSION: TO CREATE SINGLE MALT SCOTCH WHISKY OF EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY. THIS YEAR, A LIMITED SELECTION OF BOTTLINGS ARE BEING RELEASED FROM THE COMPANY’S FABLED WHISKY ARCHIVE, EACH REPRESENTING THE UNIQUE AND RARE WHISKIES FOR WHICH GORDON & MACPHAIL IS RENOWNED.

Ripe fruit aromas with vanilla and delicate elderflower aromas. The palate has fresh peach and some ripe melon flavours with underlying lime. Medium bodied the finish has a touch of pepper , oak and citrus.