Littlemill 45 Year Old - The Vanguards Collection No.1 Robert Muir 70cl Whisky

From Scotland’s oldest licensed distillery, Littlemill, comes a very old whisky. The first chapter of the new series, The Vanguard Collection, this 45-Year-Old whisky was created from the oldest and rarest reserves left from the Lowland distillery, which fell into silence in 1994. It was distilled on 11 October 1977 at the original site in Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, using Littlemill’s patented straight-neck copper pot hybrid stills and then stored in refill American oak casks before a final five-year finish in a first-fill oloroso sherry hogsheads. It was bottled at cask strength (50.5% ABV) and in natural colour. There's only 250 individually numbered bottles available worldwide of the first expression, which is dedicated to Robert Muir who was granted the first license to ‘retail beer, ale, and excisable liquors’ from King Geoge III in 1773. The luxury packaging includes original artwork from British artist, Vic Lee, reimagining the original license granted to Littlemill.