Littlemill reviews

This Littlemill 1984 from Cooper’s Choice is a single cask that was bottled for the Belgian whisky shop La Boutique du Chemin Brussels. It was presented at a Closed Distilleries tasting in my neck of the…

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…

Djeez, to think that this was released in 2011 and only now do I get a chance to try it – thanks to my buddy Imanuel. This Littlemill was selected by Luc Timmermans for his so-called Handwritten Labels…

Ah, Littlemill, always fun. It is also one of the few distilleries of which you can be absolutely sure that the bottles will rise in value. Stocks are still being bottled, but they sell so fast that you…

Littlemill recently released a new official 27 Year Old. It was dubbed Private Cellar Edition and comes in a beautiful chest with a miniature and a piece of stave. Pricetag: £2.250. Now, even though the…

It's an interesting feeling to be drinking liquid history. It doesn't automatically mean that that history isn't going to turn into a sob story, though. This Littlemill, thankfully, didn't. It is deli…

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…

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…

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…

Douglas Laing launched a series called Old Particular at the end of 2013. But now there is also a range of Extra Old Particular – XOP for short – in which exceptional single casks are bottled like a 30…