Millburn 20-year-old (D.1980, B.2001) Signatory Vintage / 58.7%/ 0.7l

Millburn is one of three distilleries in Inverness (the others being Glen Albyn and Glen Mhor) that closed between 1983 and 1985 due to overproduction of whisky.

The distillery began distilling in 1807 and has experienced several changes of ownership and production breaks over the next 70 years. It last distilled in 1985, and three years later the buildings were razed and the site taken over by the Beefeater restaurant chain. It is now home to The Auld Distillery Steakhouse. Millburn is one of the hardest single malts to come by. Distilled on 11 December 1980, it spent over two decades in an Oloroso sherry butt (no. 3632A) and was bottled at cask strength (58.7% abv) by Signatory Vintage for Waldhaus am See, Switzerland, on 7 March 2001 in an edition of 240 bottles.

Nose: pronounced sherry notes, raisins, prunes, roasted almonds, tobacco, pine resin, forest floor, damp gravel, traces of cardamom, oak and peat smoke.

Palate : slightly mineral, sherry, honeyed almonds, blood oranges, grapefruits, plums, cinnamon, candied ginger, milk chocolate, notes of licorice and oak.

Finish : long, with notes of dried fruit, mixed nuts, cocoa, nutmeg, a bit of dried mushrooms, oak and peat.