Glenfiddich releases rare whisky

William Grant & Sons has this week launched a rare $1,250 Glenfiddich whisky to mark 125 years of whisky making at The Glenfiddich Distillery in Scotland.

Only 286 bottles of the Glenfiddich Anniversary Vintage are available worldwide – and only eight of these are on sale in Australia.

The 25-year-old whisky was casked in a European Oak sherry butt on Christmas Day 1987, which was Glenfiddich’s centenary anniversary.

25 years later, Glenfiddich malt master, Brian Kinsman pre-selected a small number of the special centenary casks. Glenfiddich founder William Grant’s great-great grandson and company director, Peter Gordon, and his son Dougal, then chose cask number 19996 to become the Glenfiddich Anniversary Vintage.

“It was an honour to select this whisky. Born of two momentous anniversaries for our distillery, this whisky truly reflects the pioneering spirit that has underpinned our 125-year history and my great-great grandfather’s legacy of making ‘the best dram in the valley’,” Gordon said.

According to William Grant & Sons, the Glenfiddich Anniversary Vintage is bronze in colour and has a nose of rich fruit cake, toasted almonds and cinnamon flavours, underpinned by a zesty citrus note enveloped in vanilla sweetness, allowing hints of liquorice, leather and ground coffee.

The release is the latest addition to the Glenfiddich Rare Collection.