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Glenlivet 1979 Silver Seal 35 Year Old / Whisky is Art

Lot: 6199280

Glenlivet 1979 Silver Seal 35 Year Old / Whisky is Art

Winning Bid: £575

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Highland Park
Age: 
35 Year Old
Vintage: 
1979
Region: 
Speyside
Bottler: 
Silver Seal
Cask Type: 
n/a
Bottled Strength: 
51.3%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Glenlivet 1979 Silver Seal 35 Year Old / Whisky is Art

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.

An independently bottled Glenlivet, distilled in 1979 and bottled from single cask #6100.

Silver Seal was founded by Ernesto Mainardi in 2000. This was Mainardi's second bottling company after the esteemed Sestane in 1979. Both companies were sold to Massimo Righi, proprietor of Whisky Antique, in 2010.

This is part of the Whisky is Art series, and was bottled in support of the Rock No War project in Zimbabwe.

One of 178 bottles. 

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