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Lochside 1966 - 1998. 32 Year Old. Bottled by The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Society cask number 92.6. 70cl. 62.3%. 109.0 Proof. No box.
A single cask Lochside 1966 32-year-old bottled without colouring or chill filtration at full strength in 1998 by The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. The SMWS only ever bottled ten casks of Lochside, with the last edition appearing in 2001; this heavily-sherried behemoth was bottled at a mighty 62.3% and remains one of this sought-after lost distillery’s finest, enjoying a deservedly lofty reputation almost thirty years after its release.
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.
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) began in late 1970s Edinburgh when founder Pip Hills persuaded a group of friends to chip in for a cask of Glenfarclas, and was officially formalised in 1983. Today the SMWS has two venues in Edinburgh, a London bar and a string of international partnerships serving its 35,000 members.
The Society’s whiskies are known for their unique SMWS coding system. Each cask bottled is assigned two numbers, representing the distillery and the bottling number, so 1.45 is the forty-fifth cask bottled from the first distillery and 33.27 is the 27th cask from the 33rd distillery.
Glenmorangie bought the Society in 2004, but sold it in 2015 to a private consortium who floated the SMWS on the stock market in 2021 via their holding company Artisanal Spirits Co.
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| £2,000.00 | 19th February 2025 | 20:05 | |
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