Millburn 1981 25 Year Old Sherry Wood Mackillop's

Millburn 1983/1995 James Mac Arthur's

Millburn the last of the Inverness-three on my list and coincidentally also the last one to close its doors now more than thirty years ago. Most surprisingly it was also the only one to be spared from demolition, being turned into the restaurant/Premier Inn hotel that it still is today. You can still see it today, though little in the architecture...

Score 83/100

Millburn 1975 25 Year Old Rare Malt Series

Millburn distillery was established as the “Inverness Distillery” in 1807 and was rebuilt by David Rose in 1876. It became part of the Distillers Company Ltd (DCL) family as a result of the 1935 merger of Booth's with William Sanderson & Co., which itself was purchased by DCL in 1937. DCL moved Millburn under the control of Scottish Malt...

Score 85/100

Millburn 1972 Rare Vintage

The oldest distillery from Inverness, founded in 1807, had the same name as the town. When she was acquired by David Rose in 1853, she was converted into a grain mill, only to be reinstated as a distillery in 1876. Andrew Haig – of the famous blend – took over in 1892 and rechristened it Millburn Distillery. In 1985 she closed and in 1988 the...

Score 86/100

Millburn 17 Year Old 1983 Signatory

The Un-Chillfiltered Collection is bottled, as the name suggest, without chill filtration. Well, since this 17 Year Old Millburn was bottled at 46% ABV, there was no need. The sherry cask yielded no less than 685 bottles. The nose offers a strange mix of mashed potatoes, butterscotch, Sevilla oranges, hay, butane gas and cardboard. After having...

Score 84/100