The_Rev
Littlemill 25 Year (2015 Release)
Single Malt — Lowlands, Scotland
Reviewed
September 29, 2016 (edited February 28, 2018)
So, this bottle sells for $4,000. No, that wasn't a typo. I've tried hard not to let that fact color my opinion of the whisky, which is pretty damn good on its own merits. The nose is fruity and nutty, with a bit of vanilla; the palate is a beautifully integrated fruit salad of tree fruit, melon, and stone fruit notes topped with sweet vanilla cream, milk chocolate, and rum raisin ice cream. I feel privileged to have had the chance to try it at a local tasting; it's a very good dram. Pity I'll probably never get to have it again!
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Just tucking into a 24 year G&M littlemill. Was lucky to get a cost price dram...perks of spending so much at this place I guess :-). It's a lovely dram...very subtle. IMHO not worth the $600USD a bottle.
wow...whiskey as investment. that's as risky as it gets...really a negative alpha there. but, i guess the last few years have been good for the collectors/investors.
Yeah, I suspect you're onto something. They do bill this one as being for the collectors...they give you a sample size of the whisky so you can actually taste it while keeping the bottle itself intact. Such silliness; I hate seeing whisky turned into an investment commodity.
My Littlemill I got last year was from an independent bottler, not original distillery---that probably explains the $150 vs $4000.
I think the logic for the pricing, if you want to call it logic, is that the Littlemill distillery is...1. silent, and 2. burned to the ground after it closed. Scarcity is the mother of all kinds of price gouging...
My god, $4000!!!!????? Who in their right mind would buy it? I have a 24 yr old Littlemill that I got for $150 last year. This seems to be way too overpriced...the bottle is pretty though