While Scotland hosts a handful of independent bottlers, Gordon & MacPhail are special in that since 1895 they have bought unaged product directly from established distilleries and age it themselves as part of their portfolio. These whiskies are then matured in Gordon & MacPhail’s own warehouses (located in Elgin) or in the original distillery where they were produced, whereupon they are bottled when the company’s own people think they are ready under the individual distillery label or under the company’s Connoisseurs Choice or MacPhail’s Collection label. Due to more than a hundred years of this practice, Gordon & MacPhail has an enormous range of single malts, many of which are quite rare.