Glenlivet 21 Year Old Highland Lady 1990s

An incredibly rare bottling from Glenlivet that pays tribute to Elizabeth Grant (1797-1885) of Rothiemurchus. Eliza' was the daughter of a gentleman who owned large estates near Aviemore. In her memoirs, she would go on to write "Glenlivet... long in wood... mild as milk and the true contraband gout on it"

Well-known as the oldest licensed distillery in Scotland, for many years ‘Glenlivet’ was a byword for quality, with many single malts using the Glenlivet suffix in an attempt to reap the benefits of associating themselves with the Banffshire distillery. Indeed, owners Pernod-Ricard now put a heavy focus on the brand being ‘The Glenlivet’, encouraging their consumers not to accept any imitations. Glenlivet is in a long-running battle with Glenfiddich for the title of best-selling single malt, with both now selling over a million cases a year. George Smith secured a license to legally distil at Glenlivet in 1824, and it remained family-run until 1978 when Seagram bought a controlling stake in what had by then become The Glenlivet Distilleries Ltd, and counting assets such as Glen Grant, Benriach and Longmorn among its portfolio. When Seagram collapsed in 2001, Pernod-Ricard acquired its sizeable Chivas Brothers Scotch whisky division, with Glenlivet the crown jewel in an empire rivalled only by Diageo.

This whisky has been aged for 21 years and was bottled at cask strength in the 1990s.