51 Year Old Whisky

Oooowie, would you look at this! Single grain Scotch from Invergordon, matured in a bourbon barrel for 45 years between 1972 and 2018... who managed to get their hands on that then? OK, we'll try and stop being so smug about it, but it was us! This cracker joins our own Master of Malt collection wit

A well-matured blended grain Scotch whisky here from the J.G. Thomson range, named after an Edinburgh-based wine and spirits merchant from back in the 18th Century. This expression offers up oodles of notes that will be familiar to fans of old grain whiskies – expect dense vanilla, waxy peels, melte

A rather rare single malt here, distilled at Glen Grant back in November 1972 and aged for 46 years! The Speysider spent nearly half a century resting in a single refill sherry butt, until Berry Bros & Rudd independently bottled it. A limited 159 bottles were released for the aptly named Exceptional

A particularly interesting expression in Dalmore's impressive Constellation Collection – this 39 year old single malt was initially aged in a González Byass Oloroso sherry butt before being moved over to a Kentucky bourbon cask for a final three years for finishing. You'll often see whiskies firstly

From Diageo's Rare Malts Selection, this 24-year-old single malt from Clynelish was distilled in 1972 and bottled up at a bold cask strength of 61.3% ABV. A rare find for collectors right here. This bottle was part of a private collection - if you'd like more detailed photos just get in touch!

Indie bottling superstar Signatory is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a range of particularly exciting independently bottled whiskies - including this incredibly well-aged Bowmore! It was distilled in June 1972 and left to age in a single refill sherry butt for a massive 45 years before being

Speyside's Coleburn distillery closed its doors in 1985, and its single malts are a rare find these days! This one was distilled in 1972 and remained in cask until 2002, when it was independently bottled by Gordon & MacPhail for the Connoisseurs Choice collection. This bottle was part of a priva

Marvellously old and rare Royal Lochnager single malt, distilled in 1972 and matured for 24 years. The whisky was independently bottled by Rare Malts in 1997, at a cask strength of 55.7% ABV. This bottle was part of a private collection - if you'd like more detailed photos just get in touch!

A 44-year-old bottling of Invergordon, released as part of Adelphi's Archive range. Distilled all the way back in 1972, it spent its 44 years maturing in cask #57161 before being bottled up by Adelphi in 2016, at cask strength, and non-chill filtered. Only 82 bottles of this single grain Highlander

An antique bottling of Knackando single malt dating from the 1980s. Distilled in 1972, is was bottled in 1984 making it approximately 12 years old. This bottle was part of a private collection - if you'd like more detailed photos just get in touch!

A brilliant Brora, from the year 1972. Though Brora closed just over a decade after this single malt was distilled in 1983, its resurrection is well under way! The whisky was bottled at 22 years old for the Rare Malt Selection, a range of historic single malts from both operational and lost distille

An exceptionally well-aged single grain whisky from the sadly closed Cambus distillery, which was closed in 1993. This Lowlander was distilled many moons before that though, all the way back in 1966, and was then left in a bourbon barrel. Over half a century passed before it was bottled up for Macki

From Tullibardine's Custodians Collection series, home to some astonishing expressions, comes yet another expression which could definitely also be described as astonishing. This single malt Scotch whisky was distilled all the way back in 1964 and left to mature for over 50 years before being bottle

This right here is an old bottling of Balvenie single malt, independently bottled as part of the First Cask series. It was distilled in 1972, and filled into cask #14732 to slumber for two decades, to eventually be bottled up at 46% ABV. A rare piece, and rather intriguing too, seeing as indie Balve

From the closed Caperdonich distillery in Speyside comes this supreme single malt Scotch whisky. It was distilled all the way back in 1972, when we first got a taste for the video-game Pong in the arcades. Look how far we've come now! We can play Pong on our watches and we've got this excellent 41 y

A 33 year old vintage from the BenRiach distillery, distilled in 1972 and matured in Cask No. 4043, an ex sherry hogshead, before being bottled in September of 2005 at cask strength.

A 23 year old Rare Malt from way back when whisky came in 75cl bottles. This Mortlach was distilled in 1972 and bottled at cask strength.

A rare release of just 187 bottles of single cask grain whisky from Invergordon. This was bottled on the 17th July 2009 for the Bladnoch Forum.

It almost sounds like a song, the spring of '72 is a nutty, fruity single malt from Glengoyne with notes of apples and pears and plenty of almond.

Distilled at Linkwood in 1972 and aged for 34 years in sherry casks before bottling by Gordon and MacPhail.

A 1972 vintage from Gordon and MacPhail, matured in refill sherry butts. The Millburn distillery is now closed, so any whisky is decidedly rare.

A particularly well aged Glen Grant matured in an octave cask by independent bottler Duncan Taylor. After this line had been bottled, Master of Malt used the cask for the maturation of the first ever edition of our superb 'Whisky bitters'.

A cask strength Glen Grant distilled in 1972, it was bottled in 2009 by Berry Brothers and Rudd. Rich and full-bodied.

From the Glenglassaugh rare Cask Release Batch 3 comes a hugely attractive 44 year old single malt, distilled in October 1972 and finished in a Massandra sherry cask before being bottled in November 2016. Only 479 bottles were produced.

Part of a release of just 510 bottles distilled in September of 1972 and bottled in October of 2003, a 31 year old single cask edition from Glengoyne.