Lochside 1981 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & Macphail

Lochside 46 Year Old 1965 Adelphi

Just like the Lochside 1964 from Scott’s Selection, this is also a single blend, in which the grain and maltwhisky were brought together in the cask at birth. In this case, the cask is refill sherry butt number 6778 from the Harveys Bodega. This bottling from Adelphi is 46 years old, the oldest Lochside I have tried to date. And the darkest! Ah,...

Score 91/100

Lochside Blackadder Raw Cask 1981/2004

So, I'm very excited about this one, my first dram from a lost distillery. Browsing a local liquor store looking for some cheap bottles I came across this older gem from Blackadder. Lochside was a distillery in Montrose Angus. It was open for only 35 years from 1957 to 1992, production was set up in an old brewery for the Sandy Macnab blend. After...

Score 92/100

Lochside 13 Year Old 1991 Gordon & Macphail

Lochside Distillery closed in 1992 and was demolished in 2005. So far I have only tried old Lochside. So let me try a younger version today from this lost distillery. It is a bottling from Gordon & Macphail, containing whisky distilled in 1991 that was bottled in May 2005. The nose is fresh and fruity, but also quite mineraly. Think pineapple,...

Score 83/100

Lochside 1981 Oloroso Sherry Reserve 2010 (TWE)

I first sampled this Lochside at The Whisky Show last year when it was still yet to be released. Even among the sheer deluge of wonderful drams tasted that day it still stood out, partly by virtue of the sheer individuality and characterful nature of the spirit that Lochside produced and also as a result of excellent cask selection. Nose: A little...

Score 91/100