50 Year Old Whisky

A second old 50 year old North British grain whisky from Douglas Laing's Directors' Cut range, following up their 1961 vintage from earlier in 2012 with a 1962. This has been bottled from a single refill butt at a solid cask strength of 57.1%.

An impressive 50 year old whisky from Gordon & Macphail and bottled under their Macphail's label. It was bottled in 2012 in honour of Kings' Golden Jubilee. We're not sure which Kings' it is honouring, but they have been 'trusted for 50 years', from 1962 to 2012.

The perfect gift for any fan of sherried whisky born or married in this year, this Glenfarclas 1959 is from a single sherry cask bottled as part of the distillery's Family Cask range.

A stunning new distillery bottling of Glenfarclas 50yo for The Whisky Exchange. Aged over 50 years in a single refill sherry cask, and bottled at a remarkable 50% abv, just 87 bottles were yielded from the cask. This incredibly rare Glenfarclas has been packaged in a gorgeous crystal decanter.

An incredible old whisky from the archives of Gordon & Macphail. Distilled on New Year's Eve in 1942 and bottled in January of 1993, this has spent over 50 years maturing in a sherry cask. An impressive slice of history.

An old Glen Grant, distilled in 1936 and bottled in the mid 1980s after 50 years of maturation. Glen Grant ages well so this rare whisky should be a cracker when opened.

A single Oloroso sherry cask of Auchentoshan 1957, bottled at a full fifty years old. Just 171 bottles of this were yielded from the cask after five decades of ageing.

Bottled in 2005 exactly fifty years to the day after it was distilled, this stunning Glenfarclas was hand-picked by George S. Grant to celebrate the Bicentenary of the birth of his Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather John Grant, a farmer and breeder of champion Aberdeen Angus cattle, who bought the Glenfarclas distillery in 1865. We believe that this could be the best malt ever released by one of our favourite distilleries.

Very similar in character to the Dalmore 50yrs in the crystal decanter (they are from the same batch of stock), this is an earlier presentation from the 1970s and is packaged in a smart black ceramic decanter within an individual wooden case. Dalmore ages better than perhaps any other Highland distillery, and gives Macallan a run for its money in the quality stakes, but stocks are always very low.

Another stunning packaging job for this limited release of fifty-year-old Highland Park 1960, featuring a sterling silver abstract 'cage' around the bottle by Scottish artist Maeve Gillies and a natural-look wooden box. The official tasting notes suggest a sherry influence on this, with tobacco, raisins and cooked fruit.

Whisky Bible Awards 2013: Single Malt of the Year (41 years & Over - Multiple Casks); 96.5 Points

A 50 year old vintage Macallan, distilled the year that Queen Elizabeth became monarch and bottled shortly after the millennium at its full cask strength of 50.8% as part of the distillery's Fine & Rare series.

Bottled in 1991 in a limited edition of just 500 bottles, this whisky came from a batch of nine casks laid down in the 1930s (one cask was laid down for each of William Grant's nine children, who had helped to build Glenfiddich distillery in the 1880s).

This is only the second ever official bottling of Glenfiddich 50 year old, and has been created from two casks (a 1955 and a 1957) married for six months before bottling. Just 500 bottles of this extraordinary whisky have been created. They are released on a strict global allocation of 50 bottles per year for the next ten years. Each bottle is decorated with Scottish silver and is housed in a hand-sewn leather box with a leather bound book and signed certificate.

Bottled in 1978 into just sixty beautiful cut crystal decanters, the casks for Dalmore 50yo were laid down in the 1920s, and some of the spirit is reputed to have been distilled in the late 19th century. This is one of the best 50 year-old whiskies ever produced and is the personal favourite of many connoisseurs worldwide.

The jewel in the crown, this for us is the most special aged Macallan whisky ever bottled. Christmas cake style fruit with all the complexity of a classy aged malt. This Macallan is in a league of its own and proudly sits alongside the more recent Lalique range.

Royal Salute 50yo was launched in 2003 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the coronation of Elizabeth II - and the 50th birthday of the original Royal Salute, which was created as a tribute from Chivas Brothers to the new Queen in 1953.

This eye-catching 75cl Macallan decanter caused a sensation when it was released a few years ago. The whisky itself isn't too shabby either, with some of the casks used much older than the stated fifty years. The limited allocation for each market sold out in near-record time, and was so successful that more Lalique Macallans soon joined the series, with a 55 year-old, a 57 year-old and a 60 year-old all subsequently released.