Littlemill 1992 20 Year Old Cask #10 Berry Bros Berry Bros & Rudd

Littlemill 20 Year Old First Cask

This Littlemill was bottled by Whisky Import Netherlands, WIN for short, under the First Cask label. This means it’s a single cask at cask strength. It’s 20 years old. The nose is waxy, but expecially farmy and mineraly. Hard to describe, but – in my opinion at least – not spectacular. Wet dog. It takes a while for the fruit to come out: apple...

Score 84/100

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 15 Year Old 1990 Signatory Vintage

This Littlemill was distilled in 1990 and bottled by Signatory, the company of Andrew Symington, who also owns Edradour. The casks 2983 and 2985 yielded 623 bottles. The nose starts of very softly… grassy, floral and a little dusty. Wet cardboard. A bit waxy as well. Think candle wax. It needs a bit of time for some fruitiness to come out, but...

Score 79/100

Littlemill 5 Year Old

Let’s end our Littlemill session with a nice bottle from 1975. This official Littlemill was bottled for the Italian Aldo Zini Import. The label proclaims proudly ‘100% pure Malt’, which we call single malt today. What’s inside was thus distilled around the time of my birth. Oh, this nose is quite different then what I am used to from Littlemill....

Score 82/100