Littlemill 8 Years Old

Single Lowland Malt Scotch Whisky

700ml / 40%

Single Malt

$308

Littlemill 8 Years Old, the old core Lowland bottling in ex-Bourbon at 40%. A young taste of Scotland’s oldest licensed distillery, light and grassy with a malty, hay-like edge.

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SKU LTM001 Categories Littlemill, Lowlands, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Littlemill

Description

For years the 8 Year Old was the only Littlemill most drinkers met, the standard bottling from a distillery whose roots reach to 1772 at Bowling on the Clyde, proven to be the oldest licensed distillery in Scotland. It under-sold a fine spirit, but it is an honest young taste of the place.

Littlemill ran a famously light Lowland make, the spirit drawn off straight-neck stills fitted with rectifying columns rather than the usual swan necks, a Duncan Thomas innovation that stripped weight and left a clean, ester-rich distillate. Eight years in ex-Bourbon barely touched it.

At 40% the lignin in the oak has given a little vanillin for vanilla, but the spirit leads: hay, malt and a leafy, faintly yeasty freshness. With the distillery demolished in 2005, even the young bottlings are now finite. A genuine young Littlemill.