Littlemill 1988-2014 - 25 Year Old - Berry Bros & Rudd - Single Cask 57

INFORMATION

Littlemill 1988 - 2014. 25 Year Old. Bottled by Berry Bros & Rudd. Cask number 57. 700ml. 46%.

DISTILLERY:Littlemill

DISTILLERY STATUS:Closed

Bottle ABV:46%

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

BOTTLER:Berry Bros & Rudd

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK NUMBER:57

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Lowland

DISTILLED YEAR:1988

BOTTLING DATE::2014

AGE:25

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.