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Dufftown 1965 - 2001. 35 Year Old. Bottled by Douglas Laing for their Old Malt Cask series. Single Cask. One of 228 bottles matured in a Sherry Cask. 700ml. 49.6%. In presentation box.
A single cask Dufftown 1965 35-year-old Speyside single malt whisky released by indie bottlers Douglas Laing in 2001 as part of their famous Old Malt Cask range.
Bottled without colouring or chill filtration, this 35-year-old Dufftown 1965 came from a single sherry cask that turned out just 227 bottles at a natural cask strength of 49.6%, and still packs plenty of flavour and power despite its extensive maturation. Dufftown distillery in 1965 had only two stills and still used its own floor maltings, so this is a very special old school Speyside of a style not even the distillery themselves could reproduce today.
Dufftown is one of the lesser-known Speysiders, despite being one of the larger distilleries in Diageo’s portfolio. Dufftown was for many years part of the Bell’s whisky company, which also owned the Blair Athol, Inchgower, Pittyvaich and Bladnoch distilleries when it was acquired by Guinness in 1985. This hostile takeover brought all of those distilleries into the United Distillers fold and later into Diageo.
Dufftown’s malt was bottled officially at least as early as the 1950s and an official 40-year-old appeared in the 1970s. A 15-year-old Flora & Fauna bottling appeared in 1988, followed by a Rare Malts Edition and an underrated sherried Centenary Bottling in the 1990s. Dufftown became the European face of The Singleton whisky range in 2007, and Singleton of Dufftown featured in Diageo’s Special Releases in 2013 and 2020. Independent bottlings of Dufftown whisky are easy to find.
Founded in the late 1940s by Fred Douglas Laing Sr, the Douglas Laing company spent decades as whisky blenders and exporters before Fred Laing’s sons Stewart and Fred Jr introduced the highly influential Old Malt Cask single malt range in 1998. The McGibbon’s Provenance and Old & Rare Platinum series followed soon afterwards, establishing Douglas Laing as one of Scotland’s finest independent bottlers.
In 2013 Stewart Laing left the business, taking Old Malt Cask and Old & Rare to his new company Hunter Laing, while Fred Laing Jr was joined by his daughter Cara and her husband Chris Leggatt from Morrison Bowmore, who left the business in 2023. The Old Particular and Extra Old Particular ranges were introduced to replace Old Malt Cask and Old & Rare, and the company has since moved into distilling with the purchase of Strathearn distillery in 2019 and the construction of Clutha distillery in Glasgow.
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| £350.00 | 7th January 2026 | 08:09 PM | |
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