The 1971 vintage blended Scotch whisky — the tenth release of The Last Drop Distill- ers collection — is set to be released and sold for £3,000. There are only 1,352 bottles of this exceptional spirit in existence.
The liquid has been through an extensive three-part maturation process, and is all the more remarkable given that the single malts and grains in the blend were all distilled over the course of the year 1971.
First blended in 1983 as a 12-year-old, it has all the hallmarks of the 1970s/80s blending style. The remnant after bottling was refilled into eleven ex-Oloroso Sherry butts where it was aged for a further nine years before a small volume was taken out and bottled as a 21-year-old blend.
What remained was then refilled into nine oak barrels. These nine casks were sent
to a traditional dunnage maturation warehouse where they lay for a further 24 years. Towards the end of this third maturation period, the casks were acquired by The Last Drop Distillers’ team who bottled this liquid in June 2017 at the mature age of 45 years.