Loch Lomond 1993 29 Year Old Mizunara Single Cask
July 2023

Loch Lomond 1993 29 Year Old Mizunara Single Cask

This is an incredibly rare commemorative Loch Lomond, finished in a precious 200-year-old Japanese Mizunara oak cask from Hokkaido. Only a handful of bottles have been released worldwide, and this is your only chance to get a bottle.

United Kingdom

Nose Expect aromas of banana and pineapple, ripe orchard fruits of apple and fragrant spice.

Palate Full of toasted oak, caramel, apple, coconut, ginger and cinnamon.

Finish Long with a melted brown sugar sweetness and waves of clove and sandalwood.

Overview

We’ve fought hard to give Members the chance to own this very special bottle, released to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the British Open golf tournament, played at Royal St Andrew’s last year.

Presented at 52.8% ABV, non-chill filtered and natural colour, the incredibly rare Loch Lomond 1993 29 Year Old Mizunara Cask was finished in a precious 200-year-old Japanese Mizunara oak cask from Hokkaido. 

Only 150 of these iconic bottles were released last year and we secured hefty amount of the remaining allocation just for our Members, who got their hands on a bottle for $2950. 

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THE SPECS

Price: $2,950.00

Age: 29 Years Old

ABV: 52.8%

Maturation: Finished in a Japanese Oak Mizunara Cask

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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. 

Loch Lomond 1993 29 Year Old Mizunara Single Cask Loch Lomond 1993 29 Year Old Mizunara Single Cask

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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