Glen Mhor 1980 Gordon & MacPhail

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Glen Mhor 1980 Vintage is a rare Highland single malt from the long-closed Glen Mhor distillery, bottled in 2011 by Gordon & MacPhail. Read more
Glen Mhor 1980 Gordon & MacPhail
Regular price £750.00 GBP
Regular price Sale price £750.00 GBP
£625.00 ex VAT
Sale Sold out
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Bottle Information

Cask Type: refill sherry butts
Type: Single Malt Scotch
Volume: 70cl
Region: Highland
Vintage: 1980
ABV: 43.00%

Tasting Notes

Nose: Soft dried fruits, honeyed malt and light toffee, with hints of old oak and gentle spice. Palate: Refined and composed, delivering malt sweetness, baked apple and subtle sherry notes, balanced by polished wood and mild herbal tones. Finish: Long, calm and gently drying, leaving lingering malt, soft spice and elegant oak.

Glen Mhor 1980 Vintage is a rare Highland single malt from the long-closed Glen Mhor distillery, bottled in 2011 by Gordon & MacPhail. Matured in refill sherry butts, this whisky offers a beautifully restrained and elegant expression of a lost distillery style, shaped by time rather than heavy oak influence.

Refill sherry casks have allowed the spirit to mature slowly and gracefully, preserving Glen Mhor’s soft malt character while layering in gentle dried fruits, subtle spice and polished oak. The result is a poised, nuanced whisky that speaks to an earlier era of Highland distilling—quietly complex, balanced and deeply evocative.

An increasingly scarce bottling, this 1980 vintage release stands as both a collector’s piece and a rare opportunity to experience a distillery that now exists only in whisky history.

Why We Think You’ll Love It

  • From the lost Glen Mhor distillery

  • Distilled in 1980 and bottled in 2011

  • Matured in refill sherry butts for elegant, balanced ageing

  • Bottled by Gordon & MacPhail, renowned custodians of closed distilleries

  • A rare and historically significant Highland single malt

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The Distillery

Glen Mhor
Glen Mhor Distillery, commissioned by John Birnie and James Mackinlay and designed by the renowned architect Charles C. Doig, was founded in 1892 and constructed at Muirton Basin on the Caledonian Canal in Inverness, within Scotland’s prestigious Highland whisky region. As a pioneering Highland malt whisky distillery, Glen Mhor was equipped with two stills and became one of the first distilleries to release single malt whisky in the 1960s. Despite its innovative contributions to the whisky industry, the distillery closed in 1983, was dismantled in 1986, and ultimately demolished in 1988, marking it as one of Scotland’s lost malt whisky distilleries. Today, remaining stocks of Glen Mhor whisky are highly prized, especially rare independent bottlings from Gordon & MacPhail, making Glen Mhor expressions coveted collectibles among whisky enthusiasts and collectors worldwide
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