The Glen Grant has just announced their 70-year-old ultra-premium Devotion Scotch whisky. This extra-aged expression is the oldest whisky released in the Speyside distillery’s 180-year history and is intended to commemorate the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II of England.
The Glen Grant Devotion was distilled in 1953 and aged in a single ex-sherry cask, taking on a deep color and complex flavor over its near century of maturation. The whisky will be bottled in seven completely unique decanter bottles crafted by John Galvin and hot glass master Brodie Nairn of Glasstorm — each meant to commemorate a different aspect of Queen Elizabeth’s life.
The seven decanter bottles will be auctioned off online by auction house Sotheby’s with all proceeds going to the Royal Scottish Forestry Society.
Commenting on this release, The Glen Grant’s Master Distiller Dennis Malcolm, said, “In the true spirit of The Glen Grant, we bring together the inspiring legacy of our story with the personal devotion of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to realise this exquisite masterpiece. To be devoted, is to show unwavering loyalty and love to something you care for deeply, which sits at the heart of our whisky-making philosophy, as well as shining through with our creative collaborators. This is a lifetime of character and legacy captured in a magnificent creation, like nothing we have ever seen.”
Jonny Fowle, Global Head of Spirits at Sotheby’s said: “This whisky embodies so much of what is important in whisky collecting: quality, rarity, age and most of all provenance as the oldest whisky ever to be released directly from The Glen Grant Distillery itself. This whisky displays a fantastically deep, dark colour after seven decades of oak maturation, which contrasts beautifully with John Galvin’s opulent light wood structure making it the perfect centrepiece for the world’s most impressive whisky collections.”
