Littlemill 8 Year Old Bottled 1990s

Littlemill 1992/2012 Maltbarn

With so many different bottles of Littlemill still available, one has to wonder how it is possible that such a small distillery could leave a stock large enough to keep selling casks for decades. Or maybe Diageo is just cheating us out of our money with their special releases. Nose: light, fruity and a bit oily: notes of lemon cream, marzipan, a...

Score 92/100

Littlemill 5 Year Old

Let’s end our Littlemill session with a nice bottle from 1975. This official Littlemill was bottled for the Italian Aldo Zini Import. The label proclaims proudly ‘100% pure Malt’, which we call single malt today. What’s inside was thus distilled around the time of my birth. Oh, this nose is quite different then what I am used to from Littlemill....

Score 82/100

Littlemill 21 Year Old 1992 Berry Bros & Rudd

This week we will try a couple Littlemill from the ‘90s from last Century (with a little extra from the seventies). Let us begin with the 21 Year Old from the London bottler Berry Brothers & Rudd. It was neither colored nor chill-filtered. But the label lacks any kind of identification of the type of cask, only the number 13. Since we are not...

Score 88/100

Littlemill 24 Year Old 1990 Hart Brothers for North Sea Bottlers

Littlemill, the long gone Lowland distillery, almost never disappoints. North Sea Bottlers is a collaboration between the Belgian wine house Douchy and whisky shop Anverness and their firstborn is this 24 Year Old Littlemill from 1990, from the warehouses of Hart Brothers. The sherry butt yielded 312 bottles. The nose is honeysweet on raspberries,...

Score 89/100