Description
Deanston (Small Batch Release) 15 Year Old Whisky
Independently bottled by Our Sommelier Ltd, under the whisky label ‘Lolaire’.
Distillery: Deanston
Region: Highland, Scotland
Estimated Bottling Date: After 13th January 2027
Age: 15 Years
This Bottle Purchase: 1 x 70cl
ABV: cask strength of 63.30%
Cask to Bottle outturn: 50 bottles
Bottles Pre-Ordered & Not Available:
Cask type: Re-cask pending
Bottle: Crystal Decanter
Packaging: Luxury
Ardmore Tasting Notes: Pending
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About the distillery:
Early releases from the distillery, including Old Bannockburn and Teith Mill – a blended Scotch using Deanston malt at its heart – bore the Deanston Distillers name. Following the distillery’s sale to Invergordon Distillers the company name was no longer used. It re-emerged as Deanston Distillery Company after the site’s acquisition by Burn Stewart Distillers.
Deanston Distillers Ltd was established by blender Brodie Hepburn Ltd to build and operate its new distillery in Doune on the site of a former cotton mill. The conversion of the mill, which was owned by James Finlay & Co. Ltd, took place in 1965 with production starting two years later. Brodie Hepburn, which had also built Tullibardine and Macduff distilleries, had grand plans to make the most of Deanston’s whisky by acquiring an already established blend and using it as a core component of the brand.
However Brodie Hepburn, and with it Deanston Distilleries Ltd., was bought out by Invergordon Distillers in 1972.
The first single malt released by the distillery was under the name Old Bannockburn during the late 1960s and early 1970s, which was also used for the blended Scotch Teith Mill. The first releases bearing the name of the distillery were released in 1974 following the change in ownership.
Following a downturn in the market, Deanston distillery was put into mothballs in 1982, and sold off to Burn Stewart Distillers in 1990 for £2.1 million, when Whyte & Mackay took over Invergordon Distillers. Burn Stewart established the new Deanston Distillery Company in the same year, and the company remains the licence holder for Deanston distillery following Burn Stewart’s sale to Distell Group in 2013.
Highland Region:
Highland is the greatest of all whisky regions and provides a huge variety of different flavours and characters. It goes from the lighter whiskies all the way through salty coastal malts. While malts from the West Highland distilleries tend to have a sweet start and dryish finish, the far North Highland malts character are greatly influenced by the local soil and the coastal location of the distilleries giving light bodied whiskies with a spicy character and a dryish finish, sometimes with a trace of saltiness. Central, Southern and Eastern Highland malt whiskies are generally quite a mixed bunch. Fruity and sweet. They are lighter bodied with a tendency to have a dry finish.
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