12 Year Old Whisky

A distillery bottling of 12 year old Cardhu from the 1970s, dressed in their old style white livery.

A 12 year old distillery release from closed Rosebank, bottled in the 1980s.

A rare 1970s bottling of whisky from since demolished Glenury Royal, bottled at 12 years old under the label of John Gillon and Company.

A 1960s era distillery bottling of Glenlivet's long running standard bottling - their 12 year old single malt. This one is bottled in green glass.

A bottle of 12 year old Bowmore bottled in the 1980s. This bottle is unusual as it gives the company name as Morrison Howat, rather than the usual Morrison. This makes some sense, as the company was originally founded by Messrs Stanley Morrison and James Howat, and we think this was a shortlived subsidiary.

A limited edition 12 year old sherry matured Macallan originally only available to distillery visitors in the mid-2000s. Each of the 1000 bottles has a correspondingly numbered tree planted in the distillery's ground.

A mid-1970s distillery bottling of 12yo Glendronach distilled in 1963. Bottled at 43% for the Italian market.

Four beautifully engraved bottles of cask strength Japanese whisky: 12 year-old malts from Yoichi and Miyagikyou, a 12 yo single Coffey grain and the last bottle is a blend of the other three. A superb set.

A 12yo Macduff bottled by Cadenheads during the 1970s.

A rare bottling of Bowmore 12, produced to commemorate the Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships, held on Islay in June 2009.

A special release of Royal Lochnagar 12yo bottled for the distillery's 150th anniversary in 1995.

A wonderful old bottling of Caol Ila 12yo from the 1980s featuring the classic orange Bulloch Lade label with the capital Ls seeming to emphasise the correct 'Co-LEEL-a' pronunciation.

Very old Cadenhead's bottling from the 70s - check out that retro font! This is from a little-seen distillery that never released an official bottling during its lifetime and which has been silent since 2002.

An old-style bottle of the Caol Ila 12 year-old from the time when it was mostly used as a blending-malt workhorse for DCL.

A 1965 vintage whisky from Edderton's Balblair, bottled by Cadenhead's at 12 years on old in September 1977.

A 1960s release of Macallan's 12 year old 'liqueur whisky' bottled by Gordon & Macphail.

A 1970s distillery bottling of Glen Garioch, distilled in 1965.

A fabulous old 1930s Longmorn 12yo, bottled by and for New York importer Bellows under their own label.

A special and rare bottling of Teaninich single malt, more usually found these days as part of Johnnie Walker. This was released in 1991 to celebrate the reopening of the distillery, closed since 1985, and a visit from the Highland Regional Council, Ross & Cromarty Distinct council and the Ross & Cromarty Local Enterprise Company.