A wonderful Whisky is something to enjoy, to savour and to treasure.

So when a regarded and respected distillery proudly releases a single malt 50 years in the making, you know it’s going to be something special.

And last month, Loch Lomond Whiskies did just that by unveiling a new 50-year-old single malt, the latest addition to the brand’s premium portfolio. 

A whisky five decades in the making, Loch Lomond 50 Year Old is drawn from Loch Lomond Distillery’s oldest reserves and is exclusively limited to 100 individually-numbered bottles worldwide.  

Distilled in 1973 in the distillery’s unique straight neck pot stills, it uses 100% unpeated malted barley. It was then aged in a combination of refilled American oak casks, first fill bourbon casks and Oloroso sherry hogsheads. 

The maturation process was carefully managed by Loch Lomond Whiskies’ master blender, Michael Henry, who joined Loch Lomond Distillery in 2007. And the distillery’s oldest and rarest whisky casks remain exclusively under his personal care.

In this episode, Michael talks us through in his involvement in this special project, he talks us through his career to-date and also tells us what keeps him driven and inspired.