The Glenfiddich Gallery will offer a selection of exceptional single malts, unavailable anywhere else and the opportunity to create a truly bespoke product.
Le Clos and William Grant & Sons bring personalised luxury to Dubai International Airport with the opening of The Glenfiddich Gallery.
Award-winning luxury spirits retailer Le Clos has partnered with William Grant & Sons to offer a selection of its exceptional Glenfiddich Gallery single malts at Dubai International Airport. William Grant & Sons’ Glenfiddich Gallery was first conceived in 2014 as an online portal and now re-created for travel retail providing travellers with an immersive experience that showcases the unrivalled depth and breadth of Glenfiddich’s ancient and rare stock. It offers exclusive access to an incredible array of exceptional single malts, personally selected for their unique taste and innovative finish by Glenfiddich Malt Master Brian Kinsman. For travel retail, the concept offers a truly involved experience for travellers, enabling shoppers to select a whisky, personalise their packaging and receive their purchase on the spot, perfect for a special gift or personalised treat.
Buyers can choose from a bespoke colour palette of five primary and four accent colours, each with a link to Glenfiddich’s long history. A message on the bottle label can also be personalised, while an engraved copper plaque commemorates the shopping experience, completing the creation of a genuinely unique signature bottle, unlike any other.
To further add to this sense of place, the Gallery has been hand-crafted as a bespoke unit to fit under the original Glenfiddich still which is still the centre-piece of Le Clos’ flagship Terminal 3, Concourse A store
Ifan Jenkins, Head of Marketing for William Grant & Sons Global Travel Retail, says: “We are thrilled to be extending the Glenfiddich Gallery concept into Le Clos at Dubai International Airport, whose commitment to retail excellence makes them the ideal partner for William Grant & Sons”
Ben Odgers, General Manager, Le Clos added “We pride ourselves at Le Clos bringing to market highly collectible and unique items and are delighted to be working in partnership with William Grant & Sons. We are continually looking to raise the bar for our passengers; providing them with a world-class retail experience and to make Le Clos a leading destination for the traveler looking for a luxury gift or a whisky connoisseur looking for an exclusive premium expression; the Glenfiddich Gallery enables us to do just that.”
In very limited quantities and priced between US$653 and US$2,222, six rare and exquisite liquids have been selected, none of which are available anywhere else in the world:
• Glenfiddich Gallery Cask 5101- 1989 Refill Barrel – A signature Glenfiddich fruity sweetness. Autumn straw colour with fresh pear, green grass and spring blossom nose and a luxurious crisp, oak notes. ABV 49.60%
• Glenfiddich Gallery Cask 270 – 1986 Hogshead – Mellow and gentle, this rich bronze liquid reminds of baked apple pie, brown sugar spice and round oak. ABV 51.40%
• Glenfiddich Gallery Cask 10/3087 – 1993 Sherry Cask – Rich oak sweetness with woody spices complements a nose of cinnamon spice, soft vanilla and sweet demerara sugar. ABV 58.20%
• Glenfiddich Gallery Cask 4980 – 1993 First Fill Bourbon Barrel Cask – Vanilla fruitiness, creamy toffee and woody spices give way to a silky smooth taste with spicy cinnamon, nutmeg and tannin. ABV 52.50%
• Glenfiddich Gallery Cask 41093 – 1992 Refill Hogshead Cask – ABV 55.9% – straw colour, deliciously delicate with fresh green leafy notes and hard Williams pears with very soft, delicate and floral signature Glenfiddich flavours of freshly cut fruit
• Glenfiddich Gallery Cask 10534 – 1991 Refill Hogshead Cask – – Delicate straw colour with nose of fresh green leafy notes and hard William’s pear, the taste is soft and floral with signature Glenfiddich flavours of freshly cut fruits. ABV 55.90%
Adds Ifan Jenkins: “At William Grant & Sons we aim to give our customers memorable single malt experiences and The Glenfiddich Gallery is a perfect example of this. In this case we have adapted an online experience to a local activation which offers our whisky lovers a new level of luxury, innovation and the chance to experience some of the rarest and finest whiskies we have ever produced.”
Le Clos has nine outlets located within Dubai International Airport.
Visit leclos.net for location and more details.
