Strathisla 15 Year Old Gordon and MacPhail 1990s

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#Strathisla 15 Year Old Gordon and MacPhail 1990s

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04 Aug 2025

Bottle Details

Strathisla 15 Year Old Gordon and MacPhail 1990s

Speyside's oldest operating distillery, Strathisla was founded in 1786 as Milltown, and later renamed Milton in 1890. The distillery was an early advocate of its single malt, which it sold under the brand name, Strathisla, after the river that runs past the site. Strathisla single malt was bottled as early as the late 19th century, and proved very popular. None-the-less, by the 1940s it was struggling, needing rescued by Canadian giants, Seagram, who bought it in 1950, renaming it Strathisla the following year, and tasking it as a key contributor to its Chivas blends. Despite this, the single malt brand remained a core part of the business, and remains so to this day.

Seagram licensed the distillery’s single malt brand to their Chivas Brothers blending operation, but also to Gordon & MacPhail in the 1960 and 1970s. It is the latter’s bottles that are far more prominent. This good standing with the distillery has furnished the Elgin-based independent firm with a steady supply of high-quality casks, and subsequently, high-quality releases.

Chivas Brothers became to sole licensee in the 1980s, launching a 12 year old using the traditional branding. Gordon & MacPhail continued to buy and bottle casks, developing this new “house label” which they used until the 1990s when Strathisla was given a modern new look as part of the Seagram Heritage Selection. Gordon & MacPhail would subsequently revert to using the historic branding, and as of 2018, bottles in this style have been branded as part of the Distillery Labels range.

Distillery

Strathisla

Distillery status

Operational

Age

15 Year Old

Production Type

Single malt

Region

Speyside

Distillery

Strathisla

The oldest operational distillery in Speyside and a picturesque site located in the town of Keith. Founded in 1786, it is today part of the Chivas Brothers division of Pernod Ricard and makes important contributions to the company's blends as well as its own single malt brand.

Founded

1786

Production type

Single malt

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