Miltonduff 17 Yrs

Nice colour, vanilla, cloves, nutmeg, with a malty layer. Toasted French bread with cinnamon sprinkled over it. Malty and spicy with the addition of fresh plums. Slightly tannic and drying towards the finish, which is ok.With water, a burst of maple syrup appears. There is a lot going on in this cask. This is a lovely and complex dram.

- Hans & Becky Offringa, The Whisky Couple

A little piece of history

Originally an illegal farm distillery named Milton, but turning legal in 1824 and from then on known as Miltonduff, after the first owners. The distillery changed hands many times and one of the previous owners operated a pair of Lomond stills, producing a different style, bottled as Mosstowie (from 1964-1981). The latter bottling has become very rare. The lion’s share of Miltonduff’s production is a building block for the blended Scotch Ballantine’s of Chivas Brothers, a subsidiary of Pernod-Ricard, which bought Miltonduff in 2005 and still owns the distillery. Single malt bottlings of Miltonduff are rare too, and usually from an independent bottler.

Water source

Borehole with on-site aquifer

Malt source

Commercial maltsters.

Capacity

5.8 million litres of alcohol per annum

Location: Miltonduff, Elgin, Speyside

1 full lauter mash tun with a copper dome (8 ton)

16 stainless steel washbacks

Fermentation time 56 hours

3 wash stills

3 spirit stills