Langside

Langside is a Scottish independent bottler with roots in the Laing family, one of the long-established names in the Scotch whisky cask trade. It works by selecting individual casks from Scottish distilleries and bottling them under its own labels.

The range a buyer meets most often is Hepburn's Choice: mostly younger single casks, often six to thirteen years old, aimed at showing a distillery's spirit simply and at a fair price. These are commonly reduced to around 46% rather than bottled at full cask strength.

Distiller's Art is the older, more limited line, with whiskies of around twenty years and more, such as a 20 Year Old from 1996 or a Braeval distilled in 2002.

The distilleries in our catalogue are mostly Speyside and Highland workhorses that are rarely bottled as single malts by their owners: Auchroisk, Miltonduff, Aultmore, Glenburgie, Glentauchers, Inchgower and Fettercairn, alongside Mortlach. That makes Langside a useful way to taste these lesser-seen malts.