Bottle Information
Bottler: Berry Bros & Rudd
Type: Single Malt Scotch
1981 vintage, 29 year old bottling of the rare Highland single malt from the closed Montrose distillery.
Single cask #808. Bottled 2011.
Lochside
Lochside Distillery was established in brewery buildings close to the Montrose Basin in Scotland’s Highland whisky region in 1957. Lochside Distillery was originally equipped with four pot stills and a Coffey still and produced both malt and grain whisky intermittently until 1970. Whisky production ceased at Lochside in 1992, the works were dismantled in 1996 and by 2005 the building had been demolished. The site is now occupied by blocks of modern flats. Most of Lochside’s whisky went into blend of scotch which was bottled on site and during the 1970s a large volume was shipped to Spain, very little was released as single malt. Lochside Distillery is a lost Scottish whisky distillery.
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Lochside
Lochside Distillery, founded in 1957 near the Montrose Basin in Scotland’s prestigious Highland whisky region, operated within former brewery buildings. Equipped with four pot stills and a Coffey still, Lochside produced both malt and grain whisky intermittently until 1970. The distillery ceased operations in 1992, was dismantled by 1996, and demolished in 2005, now replaced by modern flats. Primarily contributing to renowned Scotch blends, Lochside’s rare single malt Scotch is sought after through independent bottlers such as Hunter Laing’s Sovereign and G&M’s Rare Old, making it a treasured name among whisky enthusiasts.
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