12 Year Old Whisky

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.

Mahogany-coloured cask strength Macallan from a single Sherry Hogshead: this looks like an epic dram for the sherry-heads. Selected as the Winter edition of the 'Easter Elchies' seasonal cask series, for which it looks just about perfect.

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.

An old distillery bottling of Talisker 8 year old from the 1980s, featuring the Johnnie Walker Striding Man at the top of the front label.

A rare bottling of 10 year old whisky from Glencadam, a distillery that's becoming increasingly well known in the 21st century but was almost entirely unknown when this was released in the 1980s.

A 1980s release of Lagavulin, bottled by the distillery at 12 years old.

A very desirable bottle of Balvenie Classic, rare because it has a 12 year-old age statement, whereas most bottles we've seen are either 18 year-old or no-age-statement.

A wonderful old 1980s bottle of 12yo Lagavulin.

A distillery bottling of Lagavulin 12 year old from back in the 1970s. Unfortunately other than that we have no details, as the bottle doesn't have a label.

An old 1970s cask-strength bottling of Clynelish. These cask strength bottlings were done in the early 1970s, meaning that the spirit was distilled at the old Clynelish distillery - now known as Brora.

A wonderful rare old 1930s bottle of Glenlivet 12 year-old, bottled at the higher-than-today strength of 45.5%.

A very rare blended whisky produced by Bowmore for their Bicentenary in the 1970s. This was only produced to be served at Bowmore's Bicentenary Luncheon, and we believe only a handful of bottles survived, possibly as few as 12.

A very rare 12 year old Port Ellen bottled when Queen Elizabeth II visited the distillery on 9th August 1980.