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- Fifty years in wood at €3,048 ex tax. Read That Again.
Fifty years in wood at €3,048 ex tax. Read That Again.
One of the most compelling 50 Year Old buys available. Distilled 1971.
Only a select few ever own a 50 Year Old single malt.
Our exclusive Linkwood 50 Year Old (1971, Gordon & MacPhail) is now set at €3,048 ex. taxes — placing it among the most attractive 50 Year Old options on the market.
Distilled in 1971. Matured for five decades. Just 166 bottles from a single cask.
Charles MacLean, one of the world’s leading whisky authorities and historians, described this Linkwood 50 as “a gorgeous mythical creature… a unicorn.”
High praise from a man who has tasted thousands of rare malts — and rarely uses language like that lightly.
Expect polished oak, dried orchard fruit, honeyed sweetness, soft spice and a silky, lingering finish — the quiet elegance that only time can create.
For collectors, this is serious.
For a 50th milestone, it’s symbolic.
Fifty years in wood — rarely this accessible.
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