LBD Spirits Burnadjacent 1989

Burnadjacent – because they can’t legally call it Burnside, or Balvenie.

Notes from the Bottlers:

Whiskies like this are what drew us further into that world, the pursuit of well aged malts where something tropically magical happens after 30+ years. You can’t cheat whisky like this with wood, there is no short cut, you need time and a cask that does not overtake the spirit before these reactions can occur. It is a genuine privilege to be able to share whiskies like this with our friends.

The label, it’s maybe become obvious over the years that we’re a little bit car obsessed so how do we manage to tie that in to Balvenie, err sorry I mean Burnadjacent. We remember David Mair and a few others cutting about Speyside in a rather fetching cream over tan Balvenie branded Morgan sports car. The leather bonnet straps and hand crafted ash chassis seemed to fit less awkwardly as a brand collaboration than some of the more modern machinery brands seems to align with these days.
Anyway, we’re many years away from an LBD branded hand built sports car here so we’ll just make do with a 30 year old rally car instead.

Filled – 15/11/1989
Bottled – 27/07/2026
Non-chill filtered with no added colour and bottled at cask strength.
Only 321 bottles were produced.

COLOUR
Blushing Grapefruit Skin

NOSE
Kiwi, mandarin, really old book shop

PALATE
Peach ice tea, fresh mango with lime

FINISH
Pecan pie, sea salt and really good olive oil.

ABV 47.6%