Drawn from Littlemill’s oldest remaining reserves, this 47-year-old is both a technical and historical landmark. Distilled on 4 October 1976 using the distillery’s patented straight neck pot stills, it spent its first 20 years in refill bourbon barrels before being re-racked into refill American oak hogsheads in 1996. A further 27 years of slow, quiet maturation followed, just yards from the original distillery site, before Michael Henry deemed it ready.
This release honours Jane MacGregor, the first woman to hold a distilling licence at Littlemill’s scale, and reflects the distillery’s famously elegant, citrus-driven character at extreme age without excess oak influence.
Starts coastal and saline, before floral bursts of elderflower, early summer hedgerow and rose petals, with delicate honey sweetness and elegant oak spice of cinnamon and nutmeg.
Silk-like mouthfeel, mouthwatering fruits, crisp green apple and pears, fresh pineapple with grapefruit and lime citrus, honeysuckle and gentle nutmeg spice.
Long with layers of fruit and spice. Green fruits continue into the finish with gooseberry and kiwi before waves of warming cinnamon spice.
