Dallas Dhu 1979 Gordon & MacPhail

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Dallas Dhu 1979 Gordon & MacPhail

The wine

A Dallas Dhu distilled in 1979 and bottled by Gordon & MacPhail, one of Scotland’’s oldest independent bottlers. It 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.

About the Producer Dallas Dhu

Scotland, Speyside. Distillery closed. Museum since 1988.

After closing in 1983, Dallas Dhu was bought in 1986 by Historic Scotland who, in 1988, reopened the site as a museum, exactly 90 years after its creation.The majority of the distillery's bottlings come from independent bottlers, such as Cadenhead, Douglas Laing, Gordon & MacPhail and the Scotch Malt Whisky Society.It appeared under its own name in two ranges, The Rare Malts Selection and a series released by Historic Scotland composed of six different versions that can be considered official bottlings.

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