BENRINNES - 30 ans - 1990 - Gordon & MacPhail - 55,1%
Gordon & MacPhail is an independent bottler of Scottish whisky and owner of Benromach Distillery, famous for its richly diverse range of bottlings from some of the most notable distilleries in Scotland. The business was founded in 1895 as a grocer and wine and spirit merchant in Elgin in the northeast of Scotland. In 1915, former apprentice John Urquhart, took over full control of the business. More than a century later, Gordon & MacPhail remains a family business.
Benrinnes is located in Aberlour, in the Speyside region of Scotland. The first time whisky was produced at the site of Benrinnes distillery was in 1826, when a distillery was founded by Peter McKenzie. This distillery was destroyed by a flood in 1829, and was rebuilt in 1835 in the outbuildings of a farmhouse by John Innes, and officially founded under the name Lyne of Ruthrie. The distillery went bankrupt, and Lyne of Ruthrie was sold to William Smith. He changed the name of the distillery to the present name Benrinnes before selling the property to David Edward who ran the distillery until his son Alexander Edward took over operation of the distillery. In 1896, the distillery was damaged in a fire. It was rebuilt, modernised and expanded. Between 1974 and 2007, Benrinnes used a unique partial triple distillation process, abandoned since then.
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