This is a legendary blend produced primarily for the southern European markets by Lochside distillery, from the 1970s to the early 1990s. The distillery was famous for producing both malt and grain on the same site, which makes this blend even more interesting. The letters ‘U G’ inside a hexagon, and the code ‘S C’, as seen on this bottle indicate that it was filled in the1970s.

Lochside was founded in 1957, however single malt vintages only date from the early to mid-1960s and from the early 1980s as its Spanish owners in the intervening period, Destilerias y Crianzas (DYC), used its malt exclusively for export blends. Prior to this it was in the hands of Joseph Hobbs who had operated both pot and a coffey still, blending both malt and grain at birth for the distillery's Sandy MacNab brand. Some of these "blended at birth" casks have subsequently been bottled by independent labels. The practice stopped with Hobbs' death in 1964, and the distillery exclusively produced malt until it eventually closed in 1992.