EX GORDON & MACPHAIL MANAGING DIRECTOR IAN URQUHART PASSES AWAY

Having worked for a winery in France, Ian joined his family company Gordon & MacPhail back in 1967 and worked his up to Managing Director in 1990. He held this position until he retired in 2007. 

Ewen Mackintosh, the outgoing Managing Director of Gordon & MacPhail said “From when he first joined the business in the late 1960s, he built an unparalleled knowledge for maturing Scotch whisky, which he subsequently passed onto the next generation working for the company.  He was also a driving force behind the company’s decision to purchase and re-equip Benromach Distillery in 1993 and played the lead role in creating the whisky style and the principles for maturation at Benromach.”