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Bottle Details
Glenrothes 8 Year Old Gordon and MacPhail 1980s
Earmarked from an early stage as an ideal component in blended Scotch whiskies, Glenrothes has long been a key part of big brands such as Cutty Sark and Famous Grouse. Its relationship with the former, lead to a three decade-long association with London wine-merchants, Berry Brothers & Rudd, who first approached Highland Distillers about licensing the Glenrothes single malt brand in 1983, eventually trading the Cutty Sark blend with Edrington for full ownership of it in 2010. The distillery itself remained with Edrington through, and the two were reunited when the now hugely successful brand was returned in 2017.
Glenrothes was one of the single malts that Highland Distillers licensed its brand to Gordon & MacPhail to produce official releases in the 1970s and 1980s, not having the capacity to do so itself at the time. This good standing with the distillery furnished the Elgin-based independent firm with a steady supply of high quality casks, and subsequently, high quality releases.
This is one of the licensed bottlings. The early Gordon & MacPhail bottlings of Highland Distillers single malts, which also included Highland Park and Tamdhu, were recognisable by their uniform use of these labels with arched text and encircled age statements, originally used by the company itself in the 1960s. In the later 1980s the label styles used by Gordon & MacPhail shifted to focus on a specific branding for each distillery rather than their parent company, however the Highland Distillers licenses were either returned to their distilleries by this point, or in the case of Glenrothes, to Berry Brothers & Rudd. Unusually, Gordon & MacPhail did continue to use this Glenrothes label into the early 1990s however.
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