Douglas Laing bottles range of ‘antique’ whiskies

Scotch whisky bottler Douglas Laing & Co has released a selection of ‘antique’ variants through its new Xtra Old Particular (XOP) range.

Douglas Laing’s new Xtra Old Particular range features single cask whiskies from The Macallan, Invergordon and Caol Ila

The range features both single malt and single grain expressions bottled from a single cask, without chill-filtration and at cask strength.

XOP includes bottlings from across Scotland’s whisky regions. Launching next month in specialist whisky retailers, the initial offerings include a 26-year-old Macallan, 40-year-old grain Invergordon, and 30-year-old Caol Ila.

“Our XOP range will carry our best-of–the-best stocks of particularly old and personally selected Single Casks of both Malt and Grain Whiskies which we intend to slowly release into the market,” said Fred Laing, managing director of Douglas Laing & Co.

“That is one of the real privileges and pleasures to be doing so with casks laid down by my father, Fred Douglas Laing, perhaps with this moment in mind.”

Each whisky included in the XOP range is presented in a wooden gift box with regionally coloured bottle labels and individually numbered certificate.

In September this year, Douglas Laing unveiled a new blended Highland Scotch whisky, named Timorous Beastie after a mouse immortalised in a poem by Robert Burns.