Millburn 1975 18 Year Old

Millburn 17 Year Old 1983 Signatory

The Un-Chillfiltered Collection is bottled, as the name suggest, without chill filtration. Well, since this 17 Year Old Millburn was bottled at 46% ABV, there was no need. The sherry cask yielded no less than 685 bottles. The nose offers a strange mix of mashed potatoes, butterscotch, Sevilla oranges, hay, butane gas and cardboard. After having...

Score 84/100

Millburn 35 Year Old 1969 Rare Malts Selection

This Millburn 1969 is one of the few semi official bottlings from this closed distillery. First they turned it into a Beefeater restaurant (just like they did with Rosebank), then it was converted into a Premier Inn motel. So this is a bit of liquid history. And a distillate from before I was born, which is always a bit special. Ooh, what is this?...

Score 92/100

Millburn 1983/1995 James Mac Arthur's

Millburn the last of the Inverness-three on my list and coincidentally also the last one to close its doors now more than thirty years ago. Most surprisingly it was also the only one to be spared from demolition, being turned into the restaurant/Premier Inn hotel that it still is today. You can still see it today, though little in the architecture...

Score 83/100

Millburn 17 Year Old 1971 Gordon & Macphail

Millburn. Never heard of it. Which comes as no surprise as the distillery closed in 1985 and was demolished in 1988. She started life as the Inverness Distillery in 1807, but then was converted into a grain mill. Only in 1876 was she reinstalled as a distillery, renamed Millburn. This 17 Year Old, a distillate from a time when I was still running...

Score 71/100