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Lochside 10 Year Old. Bottled late 1980s, early 1990s. 75cl. 40%. In presentation box.
A bottle of Lochside’s 10-year-old Highland single malt whisky released in the late 1980s or early 1990s. First introduced in 1987, Lochside 10-year-old was one of the only official bottlings from this splendid Highland distillery, and as this example is a 75cl bottle it must have been released before 1992, when the EU switched to 70cl bottles as standard and Lochside was closed by new owners Allied Distillers.
These old official Lochside 10-year-olds from the turn of the 1990s were fine examples of the lighter side of the Highlands. They were all quite gentle, grassy, mediumweight whiskies, almost more akin to a Lowland style malt, and although there was some batch variation the best of them have a marvellous oily texture carrying delicious tropical fruit notes alongside the hay and milk chocolate biscuit flavours.
Lochside distillery started life as an 18th century beer brewery. The site was converted into a grain distillery in 1957 and two pairs of pot stills for malt whisky production were added in 1961. Lochside was therefore one of only a handful of Scottish distilleries capable of producing a single blend whisky, where both malt and grain spirits are from the same distillery.
Grain distillation was discontinued at Lochside in the early 1970s and in modern times only a handful of Lochside’s extraordinary single blends have been bottled, most notably by indie bottlers Scott’s Selection. The distillery’s single malts were also generally excellent, with a prominent fruity character often enhanced by sherry casks. Sadly, Allied Distillers bought and closed Lochside in 1992, and then sold the site in 1997 to a property developer who demolished Lochside soon afterwards - a sad end for a wonderful distillery.
Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.
This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.
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| £15.00 | 12th February 2026 | 06:18 PM | |
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