This Littlemill 26 year old 1988 single cask is a bottling from 2015 we are quite chuffed with. A cask selected by Hunter Laing & Co. we knew we were on to a winner. With a fantastic 86 points awarded last month on Whisky Fun its reputation has grown further. A blog article on this Littlemill, exclusive to us at The Whisky Barrel, had been on the agenda. However, in July 2017 a surprise review from the venerable Serge Valentin of WhiskyFun.com fame pushed this one up the to-do list.

Littlemill Distillery was established in 1772 to the west of Bowling by the north shore of the River Clyde and on the main road into Glasgow. Subsequent modifications during the 1930s resulted in a number of novel features including double ventilation towers which sat over a single drying kiln and pot stills with rectifiers rather than the traditional swan necks. The combination of pot and column stills in Littlemill Distillery was designed to produce malt whisky which was expected to mature quickly. At the time of closure in 1994 Littlemill Distillery was the oldest working malt whisky distillery in Scotland.  Demolished in 2006 and now Littlemill is a lost Scottish distillery although the shell of the manager’s house remains.

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