LOT ID: 0723-865
End Date : Sep 13 2023 08:00 PM
Littlemill 1977 - 2017. 40 Year Old. Bottled by Cadenhead's for their Gold Label series. Single Cask. One of 126 bottles matured in a Bourbon Hogshead. 70cl. 41.2%. In presentation box.
This whisky was one of over 150 bottlings released by Cadenhead’s during 2017, the year they celebrated the 175th anniversary of their founding in 1842, when George Duncan opened his original wine merchant and distillers agency business on Netherkirkgate in Aberdeen, and is part of an extensive collection of Cadenhead’s bottlings from a private vendor in this sale.
As you might expect for such a significant anniversary, all the stops were pulled out for the celebrations and some outstanding cask strength whiskies were bottled for the occasion over the course of 2017, the vast majority of which were single casks. These Cadenhead’s Gold Label Single Casks were issued with the tartan 175th Anniversary box and neck tag throughout 2017 before changing back to their original black boxes afterwards.
FILLING LEVEL
Upper Shoulder
Littlemill was a Lowland distillery that until its closure in 1992 was Scotland’s oldest distillery, having been founded around 1772. After switching from triple distillation in the 1930s, Littlemill operated with a single pair of hybrid pot/column stills, and for a time the experimental malts Dumbuck and Dunglass were produced alongside Littlemill’s standard spirit.
After a hiatus in the 1980s, Littlemill closed permanently in 1992 when the owners went bankrupt. The distillery was subsequently sold to Glen Catrine, who relocated the hybrid stills to their Loch Lomond distillery in 1997 and continue to steward Littlemill’s remaining stocks, releasing some very impressive long-aged official bottlings in the last few years. There are also some excellent independent bottlings of Littlemill from the likes of Gordon & MacPhail and Cadenhead’s.
Sadly, Littlemill’s remaining buildings were destroyed by arsonists in 2004, shortly after the site had been acquired by Newstead Properties, a housing developer.
In 1842 George Duncan established a wine merchant and distillery agency business in Aberdeen. Duncan was joined in the early 1850s by his brother-in-law William Cadenhead, who took over the business after Duncan’s death in 1858, changing the company’s name to Wm. Cadenhead. When Cadenhead died in 1904 the company passed to his nephew Robert Duthie, who developed the spirits side of the business.
Duthie died suddenly in 1931, and employee Ann Oliver was put in charge of Cadenhead’s. Sadly, Oliver’s tenure ended in financial difficulty and on her retirement in 1972 the business was forced to sell its entire inventory. Cadenhead’s was acquired soon afterwards by J & A Mitchell, proprietors of Springbank distillery, who relocated the business to Campbeltown. Cadenhead’s has flourished under Mitchell’s stewardship, releasing many legendary single malt bottlings in the 1980s and 1990s and now has outlets in Edinburgh and London as well as Campbeltown.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £600.00 | 13th September 2023 | 17:04 | |
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