Glen Grant 20 Year Old 1996 - The Library Collection (70cl, 46%) ***sold***
Distilled in Speyside at Glen Grant distillery, this release has been bottled by independent bottlers Edinburgh Whisky Ltd. as part of their Library Collection.
This expression was distilled in 1996 and has spent a little over two decades maturing in an oak cask. A limited release of 283 bottles, this whisky has been bottled free from chill filtration and artificial colourings at a strength of 46% abv.
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 next-door), 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 developed 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.
Edinburgh Whisky Ltd. is a privately-owned independent company, based in Scotland’s capital city. Carrying on the age-old tradition of Edinburgh merchants who sourced, blended, bottled then traded Single Malt and Blended Scotch whiskies all over the world. Edinburgh Whisky Ltd have the Library Collection, a range of Single Cask Single Malts from around Scotland, and the Newtown Blended, carefully crafted in Edinburgh.