Ladyburn Pure Malt 8 Year Old (Dumpy Bottle)

From Master of Malt: The Ladyburn distillery was founded in 1966 by William Grant and Sons Ltd. The whisky distillery sits on the same site as the grain distillery, Girvan; in fact, Ladyburn was not so much a new distillery, rather the addition of a further two sets of stills in a corner at the same complex. The two distilleries not only share a site, but also a place in Grant’s blended Scotch. Ladyburn single malt whisky is rather rare, in stark contrast to its illustrious William Grant-owned siblings, Balvenie and Glenfiddich.

The Ladyburn stills were operational for a less than a decade, closing as they did in 1975. They were subsequently dismantled in 1976. Ladyburn whisky is sometimes bottled under the name Ayrshire. Ladyburn drew its cooling waters from the Penwapple Reservoir.

This dumpy bottle is aged 8 years, is 40% and bottled at 70cl