Gordon & MacPhail

The Glenlivet 1974-2011 Gordon & MacPhail “the wood makes the whisky”

June 4, 2016

Tasting notes: Oh, yes, the wood is making something happen here! Something really nice indeed. It’s so dark in the glass that it bends the dim, dust-flecked light in [...]

The Gordon & MacPhail Glen Grant 1950 from Wealth Solutions

April 3, 2016

Tasting notes: Let’s begin with a paradox from a pair o’ docs. This whisky hasn’t been working—it’s been sitting undisturbed—yet now it’s ready to retire! 65 [...]

Glenrothes 8 Gordon & MacPhail “the wood makes the whisky”

February 27, 2016

Tasting notes: As Glenrothii normally go, this one really doesn’t. It’s the silk pajama pants designer in a family of barristers. There are hints of woodiness, [...]

The Macallan 9 Speymalt Gordon & MacPhail “the wood makes the whisky”

February 22, 2016

Tasting notes: The Macallan 9 Speymalt Gordon & MacPhail “the wood makes the whisky” has a sour first note on the nose, but fortunately I was wearing a [...]

The Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseur’s Choice Royal Brackla 1991

November 29, 2014

Tasting notes: The nose on this expression reminds me of Stretch-Tite. I don’t remember his real name, but he was a geology grad student with a Paul Bunyan beard and a [...]

The Gordon & MacPhail 1948 Glen Grant 66 Year Old

October 12, 2014

You all know the classic statement of human solipsism masquerading as an epistemological question: If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound? Well, reviewing a [...]

The MacPhail’s Collection Highland Park 8 Year Old

June 5, 2014

Tasting notes: Remember the Faberge shampoo commercial where Heather Locklear tells two friends about how great the shampoo is, “and then they told two friends, and so on, [...]

The Mortlach 15 from Gordon & MacPhail (redux)

May 16, 2014

Tasting notes: On the nose, this dram is frighteningly specific for us: a fox dressed in pineapple skin armor, holding a lance, dejected after a failed casting call for the [...]

The 1991 Balblair Private Collection 20 Year Old Crozes-Hermitage finish from Gordon & MacPhail

January 31, 2013

Tasting notes: As is our Impostorish custom, we prefer engaging in wholly uninformed speculation about certain provenances to actually studying up on [...]

The 1993 Ledaig Private Collection 19 Year St. Joseph finish from Gordon & MacPhail

January 10, 2013

Tasting notes: It’s such a commonplace adage that patience is a virtue; we heard it incessantly while young, betimes while less young, and now admonish others with it [...]

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