Distilled over half a century ago in the now closed, demolished and forever lost Lowland grain distillery, North of Scotland Distillery from Cambus is our first “Scottish Spirit Drink”.

Sadly not all the rare casks laid down, in their short 23 year working life, were destined to remain whisky, and a precious few dropped below the sacred 40%. This vatting of the remnants of two casks are testament to that. Only 135 bottles at cask strength of 33.0% were left for us to enjoy.

Don’t miss out on your chance to savour some distilling history from a long lost distillery!

Read the full story below;

Price: £95 inc. UK VAT (£79.17 ex VAT rest of the world)

A client of Colin’s approached him and explained he’d inherited 10 casks of Speyside whisky distilled in the early 1970’s after the passing of one of his relatives. He asked us if we could help bottle them or sell them. After a bit of digging, we found out the 10 casks were stored at The Speyside Distillery, but were all from the North of Scotland grain distillery. We contacted him to inform him that although he didn’t have 10 casks of 50 year old Macallan worth £10 million, the 10 casks were from a long lost grain distillery, so would still be worth something. He gave us permission to contact The Speyside Distillery on his behalf and request re-gauges and samples to be drawn from each cask.

A few months later, a box arrived at Dramfool HQ with samples and re-gauge paperwork. Nervously, I opened the paperwork. There was a list of 10 casks and the first six in bold red capitals stated “EMPTY”. The remaining 4 casks were 37%, 29%, 22% and 16% abv! Unfortunately the angels had been extremely greedy! I tasted the 37% and 29% casks and thought they were good. The 22% cask tasted like industrial chemicals and was spat out immediately! I couldn’t even get my nose near the 16% abv cask, it was so bad and it made my eyes water!

So, we had a painful discussion with the owner to tell him he had 6 empty casks, 2 casks that were poisonous, and 2 casks that were of interest, but were not whisky. We explained to him we could vat the 2 casks together to sell as an interesting piece of Clackmannanshire distilling history and we agreed a price.

The valuable lesson to be learned from this is, if you own casks privately, it is your responsibility to request re-gauges to check that the angels aren’t being greedy. The warehouse staff will not check them otherwise, as they are not theirs. You have been warned!