Loch Lomond Gran Reserva Rioja Finish Gift Pack
August 2024

Loch Lomond Gran Reserva Rioja Finish Gift Pack

This is the ultimate Father’s Day pack for any Scotch lover: Double Gold medal-winning special edition dram plus two engraved Loch Lomond whisky tumblers.

United Kingdom

Colour Gold with rouge hues

Nose Floral notes of rose, soft fruits, peach and pear.

Palate Red berry and orchard fruit. Raspberry and peach, creamy vanilla and dark chocolate.

Finish Medium length, a touch of smoke gives way to lasting fruit notes.

Overview

This is the first time Loch Lomond have ever used Rioja casks for a full release, and they’ve nailed it.

Oozing with red berries, creamy vanilla, rose and soft fruits with a touch of smoke, the Spanish red wine influence complements the famous distillery’s signature single malt perfectly. The judges at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition clearly thought so too, as they unanimously awarded this special edition single malt with Double Gold.

This is the first time Loch Lomond have ever used Rioja casks for a full release, and they've chosen the best Rioja Alta Gran Reserva casks, no less. Rioja Alta is the highest altitude subregion of Rioja, Spain and is home to the leading bodegas, while Gran Reserva is the best of the best, aged the longest in cask before release.

Each cask has been hand-selected by Master Blender Michael Henry, guiding this 200-year-old distillery through its modern renaissance to a now highly-sought-after collectors' whisky.

As the official partners to The Open Championship since 2018, Loch Lomond partnered with the Royal & Ancient to make this single batch, never-to-be-repeated, official ‘Spirit of The Open’ dram. As Michael Henry, Loch Lomond Whiskies Master Blender, explains: “The Open is one of the most prestigious events in the world of golf and we are proud to be a part of the journey, supporting the 151st championship with this incredible range of limited-edition whiskies.”

These exceptional Father's Day gift packs include 1 x 700ml bottle with 2 x engraved Loch Lomond whisky tumblers. Stock is limited and only available at The Whisky Club from 12 noon (AEST) on Thursday 15th August, allocated on a first in, first served basis.

This whisky is non-chill filtered for maximum flavour and presented at a perfect 46.0% ABV.

THE SPECS

Price: $110.00

Age: No Age Statement

ABV: 46%

Maturation: Rioja Alta Reserva Wine Casks

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Loch Lomond's History

Loch Lomond is one of Scotland’s most famous and beautiful landmarks and delineates the boundary between the Lowlands and Highlands. The area’s been at the heart of the whisky industry for centuries but sadly at least nine distilleries around the Loch have been lost over the years, leaving Loch Lomond Distillery to carry the flag into the 21st century.

Loch Lomond Distillery’s story began way back in 1772 with the founding of Littlemill, Scotland’s oldest, albeit now closed distillery. Littlemill changed hands several times over the centuries before it was acquired in the 1930s by an American called Duncan Thomas. One of the great innovators of the industry, he lived in the former exciseman’s house at Littlemill and built the new Loch Lomond Distillery in 1963.

Inspired by the 1960s whisky boom, he established Loch Lomond in partnership with Chicago-based Barton Brands who subsequently bought him out in 1971, but later closed the distillery in 1984 when boom turned to bust. Scottish outfit Inver House acquired it before quickly passing Loch Lomond on to Glen Catrine Bonded Warehouse Ltd in 1986. Glen Catrine is not your average whisky company; operating as the bottling and ageing arm of Bulloch & Co, a well-established blending and retail firm, it specialised in private label and bulk whisky export, marketing a variety of blended whiskies, vodkas and gins. The purchase of Loch Lomond meant that they now had the resources to produce spirit, and Loch Lomond rapidly, but quietly grew to become the most flexible and arguably the most innovative distillery in Scotland, its operations never widely reported or understood thanks to specialisation in the private label and export business.

During this time Glen Catrine also bought Littlemill Distillery and Glen Scotia Distillery, all of which were neatly bundled together and sold to private equity firm Exponent in 2014. The new structure, Loch Lomond Group, is a totally integrated business with both grain and malt facilities, a bottling hall and two of the UK’s top-selling brands; High Commissioner Blended Whisky and Glen’s Vodka. Headed by an A-list cast of professionals from industry leaders Diageo including former Diageo CFO Nick Rose and former CFO for Diageo’s global supply business Richard Miles, along with CEO Colin Matthews, who led Imperial Tobacco’s businesses in Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian sub-continent, they mean business. Since taking over, the distillery’s range has seen a major overhaul including rebranding and repackaging, and most importantly for whisky lovers around the world, a very strong focus on malt whisky. 

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Distillery Facts

Region: Highlands

Origin: Lomond Estate, Alexandria, Scotland G83 0TL, United Kingdom

Founded: 1963

Water Source: 9 boreholes on site

Washbacks: 21, Stainless Steel (10 x 25,000 litres and 11 x 50,000 litres)

Stills: 3 sets of Lomond stills (wash and spirit), 1 set traditional pot stills (wash and spirit) and 3 sets of column stills (analyser and rectifier)

Capacity: 23,000,000 litres per annum of grain whisky and 2,000,000 litres per annum of malt whisky

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