The Gordon household, homeowners of William Grant & Sons, has unveiled a brand new collection that can culminate within the ‘world’s first’ 100-year-old single grain whisky.
The gathering debuts with a 60-year-old single grain whisky from William Grant & Sons’ Girvan Distillery, which is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary.
Whiskies for the gathering are drawn from casks laid down by Charles Gordon in 1964, the distillery’s first yr of manufacturing.
Known as One For The Subsequent, the collection will function 5 grain whiskies. Home of Hazelwood goals to launch a brand new expression each decade till 2065, creating a group of whiskies aged for 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100 years.
The gathering honours the Gordon household’s long-standing custom of preserving shares for future generations.
One For The Subsequent Chapter One 60-Yr-Outdated is a mix of whiskies distilled in 1964, displaying notes of currants, candied fruits, toasted almonds, citrus, and inexperienced Granny Smith Apples.
With solely 25 bottles accessible, the remaining 60-year-old single grain mix shall be saved in custom-made European oak hogsheads. These barrels have been commissioned by Charles Gordon’s niece, Kirsten Grant Meikle, and are particularly designed to help long-term maturation for future generations.
Meikle stated: “To be a part of our household is to have whisky in your DNA. It’s an honour to be carrying on the household custom of laying down whiskies for the subsequent era, of innovating and, after all, to be working with grain whisky first laid down by my uncle himself makes this further particular.
“Our household has been doing this ceaselessly – laying whisky down, defending it, nurturing it within the full information that it’s not one thing we are going to personally take pleasure in. It’s for people who come subsequent.
“That is our household story, and it all the time has been. And for whoever will get to open and luxuriate in these bottles sooner or later, it really is an unbelievable alternative to witness and style the evolution of a grain whisky by the a long time.”
One thing for the collectors
For The Subsequent Chapter One 60-year-old is the primary a part of a collection of 5 whiskies.
Prospects who buy the 60-year-old whisky could have the primary alternative to purchase future bottles launched within the collection.
Those that purchase the whole assortment can current it in a custom-built show cupboard, comprised of wooden sourced from the backyard of Hazelwood Home, the Gordon household’s house in Speyside.
Jonathan Gibson, director of Home of Hazelwood, commented: “Lately, there was a pattern in direction of hypothesis within the Scotch market, with some buyers seeking to purchase hard-to-find bottles and promote them rapidly for monetary acquire.
“We’re lucky that those that purchase Home of Hazelwood releases usually purchase for various causes – understanding enormously aged Scotch whisky for all the things it represents: liquid character, the story behind the flavour and the time and care that has gone into its creation. That is one thing for them – a chance to turn into part of this whisky’s story and to construct on the pioneering work of Charles Gordon himself.
“The ambition to take this whisky by to 100 can be an enchanting technical problem and, for individuals who be a part of us on the journey, it’s going to definitely be rewarding.”
Purchasers will acquire entry to a personal microsite that can maintain them up to date on the gathering, together with annual studies on the whisky’s maturation course of.
They’ll obtain a certificates of possession, invites to unique proprietor occasions, tasting samples, and data on transferring possession to future generations.
The gathering is obtainable completely to order from Home of Hazelwood and William Grant & Sons Distillers Libraries with an RRP of £10,000 (US$13,300).
Final September, William Grant & Sons reported a 34% income and revenue improve in 2023.
Final month, the corporate introduced a manufacturing pause at its Tullamore Distillery in County Offaly, Eire.
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