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Glen Grant 15 Year Old Mackintosh and Co circa 1940s / US Import

Lot: 221435

Glen Grant 15 Year Old Mackintosh and Co circa 1940s / US Import

Winning Bid: £1,550

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Glen Grant
Age: 
15 year old
Vintage: 
N/A
Region: 
Speyside
Bottler: 
Mackintosh & Co
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
86 us proof
Bottle Size: 
4/5 quart
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Glen Grant 15 Year Old Mackintosh and Co circa 1940s / US Import

Glen Grant is one of Speyside's most recognised distilleries. It was built in 1839 by James and John Grant, and was a huge facility for its time. Its size increased exponentially over time, in the hands of John's son, John "The Major" Grant (who also built the short-lived Caperdonich nextdoor), and twice in the 1970s following the merger with The Glenlivet Distillers and its subsequent takeover by Seagram. Glen Grant was bottled as a single malt as early as the late-19th century, and deveoped a global export market. None perhaps as important as in Italy, where their agent in the 1960s, Armando Giovinetti, turned it into the nation's favourite whisky, after discovering the palate preferences of his countrymen for very young single malts. So loved is Glen Grant in Italy, that the distillery is now owned by Gruppo Campari, who bought it from Pernod Ricard in 2006.

This is a fantastic old example from the international export market the distillery had in the mid-20th century. It was bottled by Mackintosh & Co and imported to the US in the 1940s by M. Lehmann Inc, of Park Avenue, New York.

Aged 15 years, this will have a very early century vintage, distilled during the tenure of The Major and in a period where some peat was used in the malting at the facility.

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