Glen Gordon is a Gordon & MacPhail brand. The origins of the whisky are unknown, although some believe it to be from Macallan. Gordon & MacPhail has never confirmed this theory. The famous Elgin-based bottler has long developed its own brands, such as Glen Avon, Glen Gordon, Highland Fusilier, MacPhail’‘s, Old Elgin and Pride of Strathspey. Rumours abound regarding the distilleries behind these names.

A single malt distilled in 1958 and bottled by Gordon & MacPhail under the name Glen Gordon. It is not known exactly where the whisky is from, except that it comes from a Highland distillery. Gordon & MacPhail offered several similarly mysterious brands in the same period, including Glen Avon and Pride of Strathspey, with rumours abound regarding the distilleries behind the names. Gordon & MacPhail is one of Scotland’’s oldest bottlers and was founded in Elgin in 1895 by James Gordon and John Alexander MacPhail. As was often the case at the time, the business started out as a delicatessen and wine merchant. In 1915, John Alexander MacPhail retired and a new partner joined the business, John Urquhart. He was joined by his son George in 1933, a few years after James Gordon sadly died in a car crash. Gordon & MacPhail works with many of Speyside’’s leading distilleries, from whom it has accumulated considerable stocks. It is also licensed to bottle whiskies for many of them, including Glen Grant, Linkwood, Mortlach, Macallan and Glenlivet. The business really took off in the 1970s, acquiring distributors in a huge range of countries and selling casks to several Italian bottlers in selections that would become legends in their own right. Gordon & MacPhail is still run by the Urquhart family today, from the same building, and is one of the most iconic bottlers in the industry, with incredible stocks of sometimes very old and rare whiskies. The company is in complete control of the entire maturation process. Gordon & MacPhail has also owned the Benromach distillery since 1993.