Ben Nevis 37 Year Old 1968 Douglas Laing Old & Rare Platinum Single Cask Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2006) 70cl

1 of 155 bottles from a single cask

Bottle Number 32

The Old & Rare Range from Douglas Laing contains whisky that it believes deserves greater recognition due to the unique and remarkable qualities the whisky possesses. Bottled in distinctive squat bottles, this range of single cask whiskies offers relatively few examples due to the angels' share taken during the maturation process.

About Ben Nevis

Ben Nevis Distillery (Fort William) Ltd is based at Ben Nevis Distillery, located on the outskirts of the popular West Highland holiday destination of Fort William, and in the shadow of the eponymous mountain. The distillery produces single malt which is bottled under the Ben Nevis name, while the spirit also contributes to the Dew of Ben Nevis blended Scotch. However, around one-third of the distillery’s new-make spirit is exported to Japan, where it is a component of the popular Nikka Black blend. The distillery fell silent in 1978, but production started again, along with much needed refurbishment, in 1981 when it was bought, appropriately enough, by Long John International – by then the whisky division of the brewer Whitbread. In 1989, Long John sold it to the Japanese distiller Nikka which had been buying malt and grain from the distillery for a number of years. Ben Nevis has continued in production and has split its whisky between bulk supplies for Japan, the Dew of Ben Nevis and Macdonalds of Glencoe blends, and single malt bottlings, which start with a 10-year-old expression but in recent years have been extended to include Macdonald’s Traditional Ben Nevis which includes smokier components. Whisky from one of the last ‘Blended At Birth’ casks appeared as a 40-year-old in 2002. Ben Nevis is now Japanese owned (Nikka) This bottle contains whisky from a lost era that we will not see repeated.

49.1% ABV

70cl