Daftmill 15 Year Old 2024 Bottling (January 2025 Release)
Description
70cl Bottle
56.3% ABV (Fife Strength)
Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distilled at Daftmill Distillery, Fife
Distilled in Summer 2009 and Bottled December 2024
A Marriage of 19 First Fill Bourbon Barrels and 1 PX Cask
Producer's Notes
The malt used to make this whisky is from the barley grown in our South fields. It is the variety Optic, a variety that went on to become the mainstay for the Scotch whisky industry for several years. Of the twenty casks that went into this bottling nineteen are first fill ex bourbon barrels and one is from an ex-PX cask. Distilled in June, July or August 2009. They were matured in the lower level of warehouse 2 before being bottled in December 2024 at the traditional Fife strength.
About Daftmill
Daftmill Distillery is situated near Cupar in Fife, making it one of just seventeen Lowland distilleries currently releasing whisky, with 6 more under construction or active but not yet releasing. However, Daftmill was the pioneer -commissioned in 2004, though only began production in earnest in 2005, it marked start of the new wave of distilleries. At that time it was the first malt whisky distillery in Fife since Auchertool closed its doors in 1927.
The business is owned by Francis and Ian Cuthbert whose family has farmed the land since the 1980s.
What makes Daftmill unique is the traditional nature of the production schedule - Daftmill is a true farm distillery. All the barley used for production is farmed by Francis on the estate. The whisky is all distilled by Francis in the farm off-season; two months in summer and two months in winter – this is a very traditional way of running a distillery that hasn’t been seen in Scotland since the 1800s.
Daftmill is also one of Scotland’s smallest distilleries by output, distilling only 20,000 LPA or about 100 casks per year.