Linkwood 1939 | 43 Year Old Gordon & MacPhailSpeyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky Bottled by: Gordon & MacPhail 75cl 40% Another of G&M's wealth of pre war liquid time capsules that reveal a long lost and masterly era of Scottish whisky production. If you think you know Linkwood then taste this and think again, a maelstrom of wax, fragrant peat smoke, tropical fruits, green tea and rancio. The majority of aged pre war bottlings by G&M have invariably been Strathislas, Glen Grants, Macallans or

The palate is rich with sticky dates and dark orange marmalade combined with sweet peat notes and lingering cigar box characters

they would never really be the same again

Country Scotland Region Island Distilled Year 1997

Once in a lifetime Cognac

this is a licensed bottling for what is now known as the Distillery Labels series

And thank goodness for that

this is one of only a handful of casks of Ben Wyvis that have ever been released of this single malt

which was originally created in 1908 - supposedly scribbled on a napkin by commercial artist Tom Browne after receiving the brief from John Walker's grandson George during a lunch meeting at a gentlemen's club in London

green bananas

This sort of whisky hasn't been made since before the second world war and is almost never genuinely available anymore these days

By the middle of World War 2 grain

oily and concentrated with all kinds of peat