Glenlossie 2007 9 Year Old - Hepburn's Choice (Langside) (70cl, 46%)
An independent bottling of single malt from Speyside's Glenlossie distillery, aged in a refill hogshead for 9 years. The spirit was produced in Glenlossie's onion-shaped stills in 2007 and bottled by Langside for the Hepburn's Choice range in 2017. 375 bottles were produced.
Glenlossie became part of DCL (now Diageo) in 1919, who made it part of their Haig stable in the 1930s. The distillery has always been hugely important to the Diageo blends, and excepting the staff-only Manager's Dram, the Flora & Fauna is the only distillery bottling, and one of the few from the series still in production. Independent bottlings are more common, but are still decidedly rare.
Langside Distillers started out as a blending company in the 1970s, producing Scotch brands such as B&B, Glen Drumm and John Player Special. They moved into the business of bottling independent single malts with their Douglas of Drumlanrig label in the 2000s, before becoming a subsidiary of Hunter Laing in 2013. Nowadays they produce its Distiller’s Art and Hepburn’s Choice bottlings.