Ayrshire 1973 Ladyburn 31 Year Old Bottled 2004 Duncan Taylor

Ladyburn Rare Ayrshire 37yo (1975/2013)

On the Ayrshire shore, in the shadow of the mighty Girvan column stills once stood a single malt distillery, secretively tucked away in the belly of the beast. Like Ben Wyvis, Glenflagler, Inverleven and Kinclaith, Ladyburn was a child of her time, a short-lived fashion trend: a kangaroo distillery (a single malt distillery located within the...

Score 91/100

Ladyburn 35 Year Old 1975 Rare Ayrshire Signatory Vintage

I guess you could call this liquid history, knowing that the distillery was built in 1966 (on the terrain of the Girvan grain distillery that was built only three years prior) and closed again in 1976. So this is a very rare malt. It matured for 35 years on a bourbon barrel and was then bottled by Signatory. Andrew Symington and his crew were not...

Score 79/100

Ladyburn 38 Year Old 1973 Blackadder Raw Cask

My second Ladyburn is even more rare than the first. This single cask was filled on 13th July 1973 and bottled in February 2012 by Blackadder. Robin Tucek and his team launched this Ladyburn under their Raw Cask label. The nose is quite expressie on all kinds of fruit, from apple to litchi to even strawberry. It is a bit bubblegummy, on the verge...

Score 86/100