LOT ID: 1022-961
End Date : Jan 04 2023 08:00 PM
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Inverleven was the name given to the single malt whisky made at the Dumbarton distillery complex built just west of Glasgow in 1938. While Dumbarton’s main operations centred on grain whisky production, Inverleven produced Lowland malt whisky for owner Hiram Walker’s blends, particularly Ballantine’s. Inverleven's two pot stills were joined in 1956 by Scotland’s first Lomond still, later reclassified as a separate distillery, Lomond.
Dumbarton distillery fell on hard times in the 1980s, with the Lomond still being decommissioned in 1985 and the Inverleven pot stills falling silent in 1991. Bruichladdich bought Inverleven’s stills in 2005, later selling the pot stills to former owner Mark Reynier at Waterford distillery, but keeping the Lomond still to make their Botanist gin. At auction, the Deoch & Doras 1973 Inverlevens bottled by Chivas Bros and indie bottlings by the SMWS, G&M, Signatory and Cadenhead’s are well worth looking out for.
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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. 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.
BID | DATE | TIME | |
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£72.50 | 4th January 2023 | 04:30 | |
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