Lochside 1989 21 Year Old Old Malt Cask #6953 Douglas Laing

Lochside 13 Year Old 1991 Gordon & Macphail

Lochside Distillery closed in 1992 and was demolished in 2005. So far I have only tried old Lochside. So let me try a younger version today from this lost distillery. It is a bottling from Gordon & Macphail, containing whisky distilled in 1991 that was bottled in May 2005. The nose is fresh and fruity, but also quite mineraly. Think pineapple,...

Score 83/100

Lochside 17 Year Old 1991 Reserve

Lochside did not really have a long life. It was founded in 1957 in the old buildings of the Deuchars & Sons brewery that was active there since 1781. Initially the distillery was founded purely to create grain whisky, but after four years – in 1961 – the owners realized they could make more money with malt whisky. However, the distillery...

Score 82/100

Lochside 1981/2005 24 Year Old Cadenhead's

Lochside distillery was located north of Montrose in the Eastern Highlands and began its life as a beer brewery. In 1957 it was rebuilt into a malt and grain whisky distillery by Macnab Distilleries (the Coffey still that produced the grain whisky was removed in 1973). Lochside was acquired in 1973 by a company named Destilerías y Crianzas del...

Score 81/100

Lochside 46 Year Old 1965 Adelphi

Just like the Lochside 1964 from Scott’s Selection, this is also a single blend, in which the grain and maltwhisky were brought together in the cask at birth. In this case, the cask is refill sherry butt number 6778 from the Harveys Bodega. This bottling from Adelphi is 46 years old, the oldest Lochside I have tried to date. And the darkest! Ah,...

Score 91/100