Cask Number: 711

Age: 13 years

ABV: 55.7%, bottled at cask strength

Cask Type: Hogshead with Madeira Wine Finish

Bottles: 200

Bottle Size: 700ml

Tasting Notes: Banoffee (a British pie combining bananas, whipped cream, and caramel on a biscuit base), tinned peaches, cake batter

Natural color, non-chill filtered.

About Loch Lomond Distillery

Loch Lomond is one of Scotland’s largest and most versatile distilleries. It is both a grain and malt distillery. It produces single grain whiskies and single malt whiskies, blends too. The site has both pot stills and a single Coffey still. Column stills are used for the grain whisky distillation.  The distillery is technically in the Highlands but it straddles the Lowlands with its location in Alexandria, a town on the distillery’s namesake, Loch Lomond.

A fairly new distillery by Scotland’s terms, Loch Lomond commenced production in 1966. Interestingly, Loch Lomond was a venture between the owners of the nearby Littemill Distillery and the American owned Barton Brands. A true innovator, with its own grain and malt production, Loch Lomond was not reliant on trading stock with other distilleries for its blends. The distillery beats to its own drum for more than just its spirit versatility. It utilizes wine yeasts, highly unusual, for its fruity whiskies and has its own cooperage on site. It’s one of only four Scottish distilleries with its own cooperage, ensuring only the highest quality casks are used for Loch Lomond whiskies. Typical fermentation is between 40-45 hours but not Loch Lomond, here the fermentation period is 90 hours.

Loch Lomond defines their single malt style as ‘delivering fruit, sweet honey and soft smoke’. Producing both peated and unpeated malts, Inchmurrin, is Loch Lomond’s name for whiskies produced at Loch Lomond through their rather unique straight necked pot stills, which give a distinctly fruity character to the whiskies. When independent bottlers like Lady of the Glen get their hands on Loch Lomond, it's ensured unique and delicious whisky is the end result.