Littlemill 12 Year Old

Littlemill 20 Year Old First Cask

This Littlemill was bottled by Whisky Import Netherlands, WIN for short, under the First Cask label. This means it’s a single cask at cask strength. It’s 20 years old. The nose is waxy, but expecially farmy and mineraly. Hard to describe, but – in my opinion at least – not spectacular. Wet dog. It takes a while for the fruit to come out: apple...

Score 84/100

Littlemill Hart Brothers 19 yo d1990 b2010

First whiff is strongly reminiscent of dead fish. Sulphur. Wooo. Strong. Pungent and kind of disgusting (unless you dig dead fish). With A LOT of air more sherry comes to the fore. Taste is not as repugnant as the nose. Turns to furry green almonds, and I don't mean fresh almonds. Rancid nuts and fermented lemon juice. Some strong chocolate and...

Score 84/100

Littlemill 8 Year Old / Bot.1990s

Littlemill always sounds like ‘yes, please’, so when my best friend in Holland was able to secure a sample of an official release from two decades ago, I jumped at the chance, tried to keep my saliva glands in check and got to work. Distilled at the end of the 1980s and bottle in the year that yours truly became a Dad for the first time. By now,...

Score 86/100

Littlemill 22 Year Old 1989 Archives

WhiskyBase, the well known whisky community, has its own shop and own bottlings. In their ‘Inaugural Release’ you will find four whiskies: Caol Ila 2000, Clynelish 1997, Strathmill 1974 and this Littlemill from 1989. The bronze colour reveals that this is a sherry cask. Oh my god! This is Littlemill? It has nothing in common with the sympathetic...

Score 89/100