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Littlemill 1966 Cadenhead's 17 Year Old

Lot: 5091488

Littlemill 1966 Cadenhead's 17 Year Old

Winning Bid: £1,650
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 17 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Littlemill
Age: 
17 Year Old
Vintage: 
1966
Region: 
Lowland
Bottler: 
Wm. Cadehead
Cask Type: 
n/a
Bottled Strength: 
46%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Littlemill 1966 Cadenhead's 17 Year Old

Wm. Cadenhead are Scotland's oldest independent bottler, operating for over 175 years, but perhaps none of their bottlings are as sought after as these 'dumpy' style bottles. These were produced with brown glass and an iconic black label (white for the occasional grain whisky), with each distillery given its own letterpress font in homage to William Cadenhead's early career in the printing business.

This 1966 vintage Littlemill was bottled in January 1984 after 17 years of maturation

Littlemill was one of Scotland's oldest distilleries in its time, with distilling rumoured to have taken place there as far back as the late 18th century.​​ It has a turbulent history of ownership changes and mothballings, as well as briefly experimenting with producing a lightly and heavily peated single malt as well, called Dunglass and Dumbuck, respectively. Barton Brands, the owners at the time, called a halt to these in 1971 however. The distillery closed again for a time in the 1980s, with its still falling silent for the final time in 1994. The distillery buildings were then lost in a fire in 1996, bringing an end to the its tumultuous story. 

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