Littlemill 1984 Scott's Selection

Littlemill 8 Year Old / Bot.1990s

Littlemill always sounds like ‘yes, please’, so when my best friend in Holland was able to secure a sample of an official release from two decades ago, I jumped at the chance, tried to keep my saliva glands in check and got to work. Distilled at the end of the 1980s and bottle in the year that yours truly became a Dad for the first time. By now,...

Score 86/100

Littlemill 24 Year Old 1990 Malts of Scotland for Tongerse Whiskyvrienden

I have tried a couple of club bottlings from the Belgian ‘Tongerse Whiskyvrienden’, like their Caol Ila 1990, Kilchoman 2009, Laphroaig 1997 and more recently Highland Park 1994. They were gems, all of them. So the expectations for this Littlemill 1990 are pretty high. Sturdy nose on banana peel, lime and mango. Loads of oak as well. Think freshly...

Score 89/100

Littlemill 25 Year Old Private Cellar Edition

Getting to sample a 25 Year Old from a distillery that shut its doors in 1994 is quite a privilege in itself. Add to that the fact that this one’s a distillery bottling that’s been bottled in 2015 after 25 years of maturation initially in ten American and European oak casks before being married and finished in first-fill Oloroso Sherry casks. This...

Score 89/100

Littlemill 1988/2015 26 Year Old Hart Brothers

Littlemill distillery was located in Bowling in West Dunbartonshire, right on the border of the Lowlands and the Highlands. It claimed 1772 as its foundation year when houses had been constructed for excise officers, making it quite possibly the oldest malt whisky distillery in Scotland. Over the years Littlemill saw a number of different owners,...

Score 85/100