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Douglas Laing
kicks off 70th Platinum Anniversary year
with the release of XOP Ardbeg 1992
vintage 25 Year old Single Cask Single
Malt.
Glasgow based independent whisky
bottler and soon to be distillery owner
Douglas Laing was established back in
1948 by Fred Douglas Laing and 70 years
on the company are kicking off their
Platinum Anniversary year in the whisky
business by releasing XOP Platinum - a
limited edition series within their Xtra
Old Particular range as well as a
commemorative Old Particular double
bottle pack.
Today, Douglas Laing is regarded as an
innovative independent spirit business,
still owned and run by the Laing family,
with 2nd generation Fred Jnr and 3rd
generation, Fred's daughter Cara at the
reigns. They tell me that 2018 will see
a number of exciting initiatives to
commemorate their anniversary but they
are kick starting proceedings with the
launch of four XOP Platinum Single Casks
and an Old Particular double pack
carrying two very different 35 Years Old
Whiskies.
Fred and Cara have selected four
whiskies for the XOP Platinum for
release through 2018, the first bottling
will be an Ardbeg 1992 vintage 25 Year
old Single Cask Single Malt which has
been bottled at natural cask strength of
50.5% ABV, without colouring or
chill-filtration. A limited release of
251 bottles, it will be presented in
special packaging which has been chosen
to reflect both the rarity and age of
the Ardbeg spirit, whilst each and every
label is hand signed and individually
numbered by Fred and Cara.
The special commemorative Old Particular
double bottle pack release contains a
Single Cask bottling each of Cambus 35
Year Old Single Grain and a Caol Ila 35
Year Old Single Malt. Only 284 of these
packs have been produced with each and
every gift box similarly being hand
signed and individually numbered by Fred
and Cara.
Cara Laing, Director of Whisky,
comments: "2018 is a big year for us all
at Douglas Laing. We’ll have fun
celebrating it - something my
grandfather would heartily have approved
of - but it’s also a huge milestone
highlighting our 7 decades at the
forefront of the Whisky industry. These
bottlings are a perfect representation
of Douglas Laing’s commitment to
specialist, artisan Scotch Whiskies and
we are releasing them at the point where
we believe they are at their peak. The
Ardbeg is an outstanding example of what
is to come, and one I immediately knew
had to be part of this special series of
bottlings while the Caol Ila and Cambus
35 Years Old deliver 7 decades of Whisky
excellence!"
The XOP Platinum series will be released
globally throughout this year. The
Ardbeg 1992 25 Year Old (70cl bottle)
will be the first to be launched from
April with an RRP of £900.00.
The Old Particular double pack (2 x 50cl
bottles) will be released globally from
April with an RRP of £450.00.
You will find the Douglas Laing Platinum anniversary bottlings as
well as their current whisky range available
from specialist online whisky retailers such as The Whisky Exchange
and
Master of
Malt
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