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Linlithgow 1975 - 1998. 22 year old. Bottled by Signatory Vintage for their Silent Stills series. Cask number 96/3/01. One of 335 bottles. 70cl. 51.7%. In presentation box with matching miniature and cask bung.
A single cask Linlithgow 1975 22-year-old Lowland single malt whisky released in 1998 by indie bottlers Signatory Vintage as part of their famous Silent Stills range. Linlithgow distillery was also known as St. Magdalene, while Silent Stills was one of Signatory’s most collectible series, as each bottling came in a set with a miniature of the same whisky and a commemorative wooden bung made from the cask it came from.
Bottled without colouring or chill filtration, this 22-year-old Linlithgow 1975 came from single cask 96/3/01, which yielded 335 bottles at a very promising natural cask strength of 51.7%. Now that Rosebank, Port Ellen and Brora are open again, Linlithgow / St. Magdalene is not just the greatest of the extinct Lowland distilleries but one of the greatest of all of Scotland’s distilleries lost in the culls of the 1980s, and this is a brilliant example, picking up 92 points from Serge Valentin’s Whiskyfun.
Linlithgow distillery (more commonly known as St. Magdalene) is one of the greatest and most sorely missed of the lost Lowland distilleries. The distillery’s 1983 closure attracted little outcry but a handful of extraordinary Rare Malts bottlings in the late 1990s brought home the scale of the loss. Thankfully, a great many casks of St. Magdalene/Linlithgow have appeared from independent bottlers, with high strength versions by Cadenhead’s, SMWS, Douglas Laing and Gordon & MacPhail all performing well at auction.
Linlithgow’s spirit, although sometimes showing a typical Lowland grassiness, was also frequently considerably more robust and austere than one would expect, with the pre-1975 vintages in particular displaying a minerally, oily waxiness more akin to the old Highland style malts than the soft Lowland archetype, while post-1975 vintages sometimes tend more towards elegance and fruitiness. A marvellous distillery that malt fans must try while bottlings still exist.
Signatory Vintage Whisky Company was founded by Andrew Symington in 1988 after a spell as assistant manager at the Prestonfield House Hotel, where he had the opportunity to buy a cask of Glenlivet 1968. A robust and canny businessman, Symington had soon acquired some outstanding parcels of casks from great distilleries, and quickly established a reputation among single malt fans for good value, high quality single casks, the majority of which were released at full strength.
Throughout the 1990s and beyond, Signatory released outstanding whisky from Ardbeg, Glenfarclas, Springbank and many more, with frequently remarkable examples of lost or obscure distilleries. Soon established as one of the leading new wave independent bottlers, Symington was also an early exponent of bottling whiskies without colouring or chill filtration, a policy that has also served Signatory well at their Edradour distillery, which was purchased in 2002.
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| £575.00 | 7th January 2026 | 07:59 PM | |
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