LOT ID: 1022-857
End Date : Jan 04 2023 08:00 PM
St. Magdalene distillery (sometimes known as Linlithgow) 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.
St. Magdalene’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.
Robert Scott & Co. was an independent bottler set up in 1996 as a subsidiary of Speyside Distillers to launch Scott’s Selection, a range of cask strength whiskies bottled from single casks selected by Robert Scott, a former distillery manager of Bladnoch and retired Master Distiller of Speyside distillery.
Scott’s Selection whiskies proved extremely popular in the early 2000s, with a string of outstanding bottlings including 1970s vintages from Longmorn and Macallan and a famous Lochside 1964 single blend. Speyside Distillers was sold to Alexander Muir & Son Ltd in 2000; the last Scott’s Selection bottlings appeared in 2012, shortly before the business was sold to Harvey’s of Edinburgh.
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