Inverleven 1977 31 años Signatory Cask Strength Collection

Inverleven 1985 Gordon & Macphail

Inverleven is an unknown Lowlander, founded in 1938 by Hiram Walker & Sons on the terrains of the Dumbarton Grain Distillery and closed in 1991 by then-owners Chivas Brothers. She took her water from Loch Lomond. The production went into Ballantine’s mostly. In the meantime, she has been torn down. So it is a lost distillery. However. Rumour...

Score 76/100

Inverleven 1979 Vintage G&M

Probably the best known of the kangaroo distilleries (a small single malt distillery located on the premises of a grain distillery plant, trademark by Pandemonium), Inverleven was born in 1938 in the house of Dumbarton. But that was not the even the strangest thing about her, the other oddity was that she was running for 50% on Lomond stills....

Score 81/100

Inverleven 1979 24 Year Old

So far I have only once ever tried an Inverleven, just over two years ago. It was a Gordon & Macphail bottling, just like the one I will try now. The previous one was a distillate from 1985. This time, we go back a bit, to 1979. If Inverleven does not ring a bell: it was a Lowland distillery, founded in 1938 and closed in 1991. Dried fruit...

Score 83/100

Inverleven 1977

This is part two of three independent single malts I tasted with a group of whisky enthusiasts one evening. All part of the Closed Distillery series from Part Des Anges. This is the closed distillery of Inverleven aka Dumbarton which operated between 1938 and 1991. Michael Jackson considered it a Lowland even though the nearby distillery of Loch...

Score 91/100