Littlemill distillery closed for good in 1992.

The distilling equipment was removed in 1996 and the site was destroyed by fire in 2004.

Now that Littlemill is reaching maturity the spirit is really beginning to shine.

Tasting notes:

Nose: Coconut creams. Vanilla custard, gooseberries and white chocolate flakes.

Palate: Almonds and peached with lychee; traces of fresh oak and becoming much creamier.

Finish: Clotted cream, lemon icing and then juicy mandarins.

Tasting notes Serge Valentin: 93 points (Whiskyfun.com)

Another new one. Let’s give up literature (yeah right, S, literature!)

Colour: gold.

Nose: it’s a pure, austere, mineral Littlemill. More on skins than on fruit pulps, and I even find whiffs of new leatherette, new sneakers, chalkboard… Should we call this baby ‘schooly’? Also rather western fruits than tropical ones, so rhubarb and gooseberries instead of mango and maracuja. With water: I find that sneaky to put Yquem 1988 into a bottle of whisky. Very sneaky.

Mouth (neat): ohh! A perfect straight tropical fruitiness that would even beat a 1976 Benriach, if that rings a bell to you. Not whisky, a sin. Quick, with water: there’s some Haendel in this. You know, the Hallelujah chorus from his Messiah. Other than that, oranges, citrons, guavas, lemons, and a touch of coconut.

Finish: perhaps medium, certainly emphatically fruity.

Comments: this demonstrates the superiority of very small batches vs. single casks. All my favourite whiskies were vattings of two or three (or four) casks, almost never single casks. Just saying, just saying. As for this wee Littlemill, it’s the, ach, err, the bomb. Hope the cheque’s in the mail, Cadenhead! PS: buy these black small batches. Future legends