Littlemill 20-year-old (D.1983, B.2004) Signatory Vintage / 49.5%/ 0.7l
- Littlemill Distillery, founded 1772, until the mid 1990s legitimately claimed to be Scotland’s oldest working distillery. Sadly, distillation stopped in 1994 and two years later the distillery was dismantled.
Product description
Built in 1772, the Littlemill Distillery held the honour of being Scotland's oldest distillery still in operation until around the mid-1990s.
Sadly, it last distilled in 1994 and the distilling equipment was removed a dozen or so months later; in 2004, the remains of the buildings were destroyed by fire. Littlemill editions are becoming increasingly rare, although we have heard unofficially that the current owner, the Loch Lomond Group, still has stocks of this whisky. Here we present a whisky distilled on 6 December 1983 and aged in cask no. 2915 for over two decades. It was added to the Signatory Vintage range on 18 May 2004, and the edition consisted of 273 bottles.
Nose : sweet breakfast cereal, vanilla pudding, honey, yogurt, granola bar, freshly cut grass, lemon pepper, green apples and a hint of damp cardboard.
Palate: fruity-sweet, vanilla, honey, brown sugar, grapes, pears, apple cider, lemon peel, walnuts, notes of hay and oak.
Finish : quite long, with notes of vanilla, cereals, lemongrass, pepper and quite intense oak bitterness.