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Littlemill 1977 Cadenhead's 40 Year Old

Lot: 5136876A

Littlemill 1977 Cadenhead's 40 Year Old

Winning Bid: £700
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 23 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Littlemill
Age: 
40 Year Old
Vintage: 
1977
Region: 
Lowland
Bottler: 
Cadenhead's
Cask Type: 
ex-Bourbon Hogshead
Bottled Strength: 
41.2%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Littlemill 1977 Cadenhead's 40 Year Old

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 lightly and heavily peated single malts 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 stills falling silent for the final time in 1994. The distillery buildings were then lost in a fire in 1996, bringing an end to its tumultuous story.

This whisky was distilled in 1977 and laid to rest in a single ex-Bourbon Hogshead for 40 years before being bottled in 2017.

Wm. Cadenhead is Scotland’s oldest independent bottler, founded in 1842 by George Duncan. His brother William Cadenhead joined the company in 1952, taking over after George’s death in 1958. The company got into the whisky bottling business after 1904, when his nephew Robert Duthie took over, and since its sale to J&A Mitchell in 1972, Wm. Cadenhead has become on of the most sought after names in whisky. Its Authentic Collection is the flagship brand, but the portfolio of the company has expanded in recent years with labels like this.

One of 126 bottles.

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