Glenlivet 50 Year Old Finn Thomson 1970
A Single Cask - Fifty Years in the Making
This is a whisky matured in a sherry cask from a different era. While today
it is a requirement that all sherry must be bottled in Spain, before the 1970s it was common practice for sherry to be shipped, still in cask, to Scotland for bottling. Scottish whisky and wine merchants, including Finn's great grandfather’s company Peter Thomson’s Ltd, bottled their brands of sherry who would then proceed to use the fresh sherry casks to mature their whisky stocks.
The outstanding quality of these fresh sherry casks is blatant when tasting this whisky
Uncasking
The Opening Experience
The cylindrical box, handcrafted in pure oak, is designed to evoke uncasking: the metaphorical cask turned inside out, with its typical charred interior facing outwards and the warm raw wood inside. Made of nine perfect circles for nine generations—like rings on a tree—they represent the continuing story.
Cocooned inside is the whisky within a bespoke nine-sided bottle representing each generation that has contributed towards one family’s 300-year whisky lineage.
"Working with old whisky is always special... but discovering a whisky of this quality was a rare treat" Finn Thompson
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