How long has it been since we’ve seen new Lochside on the market? The distillery was closed in 1992, demolished in 2005, and it seems most of the available casks have been bottled. A couple of premium releases in the last couple of years but that’s all.

Let’s keep the memory alive with this Lochside 1987 in the Perfect Dram series from The Whisky Agency.

Lochside 21 yo 1987 (62,4%, The Perfect Dram 2008, ex-bourbon hogshead, 199 btl.)

Nose: starts rather austere, closed, with lots of grassy notes, then mint and oak. After a while the fruity notes...