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LINDORES ABBEY COMMEMORATIVE BOTTLING NOW AVAILABLE

As featured recently on Sky News, BBC World, CNN and News 24, the inaugural commemorative bottling of Lindores Abbey 30 Year Old Pure Malt whisky is now available.

The ancient abbey of Lindores in Fife is known as the 'Birthplace of Scotch Whisky' and the release of this first specialist bottling has already attracted the attention of whisky enthusiasts worldwide.

The bottles and their wooden presentation boxes are hand numbered, and include a unique Angels share certificate, declaring that as the purchaser of one of the signed bottles, they have genuinely contributed towards the upkeep and preservation of Lindores Abbey, "The Birthplace of Scotch Whisky".

Retailing at £150.00 per bottle, a royalty from every bottle sold will be donated to the Lindores Abbey Preservation Trust. Whisky giants Diagio have led the way by donating a substantial sum to this fund. Initially the money raised will be used to make the Abbey site safe for visitors, with further plans for a visitor centre and micro distillery in the pipeline.

The earliest recording of Scotland's national drink appears in the Exchequer Rolls in 1494 which states that Friar John Cor, a Tironensian monk of Lindores Abbey, paid duty on 8 bolls of malt in order to make Aqua Vitae for King James VI.

In a bid to revive this important historic site Drew McKenzie Smith, whose family own Lindores Abbey, has launched this exclusive bottling of 30 year old single malt whiskies. The malts have been carefully selected from each of the whisky producing regions of Scotland by whisky expert Euan Shand of Duncan Taylor and Co.

Steeped in history the Abbey was founded in 1191 by the David, Earl of Huntingdon (whom some experts believe to have been Robin Hood!) and visited by William Wallace after his celebrated victory at the Battle of nearby Blackearnside in 1298. Seeking solace for the wounded at a stream behind the Abbey, which would later be used by the monks to make Aqua Vitae, he famously wrote on the purity of the water "the wine in France, I ne'er thought half so good"

Limited to 500 bottles, this new whisky is called "Lindores Abbey". McKenzie Smith comments: "This is the first in a series of very exclusive bottlings, through selecting the best whiskies from all the regions we can draw on the rich history of distilling in Scotland to help preserve its past".

"Also it is a way in which whisky enthusiasts from around the world can actively contribute to the preservation of the Abbey of Lindores. We aim to bring whisky back to the place of its birth by the creation of a visitor centre. The ultimate establishment of a micro distillery, using the same water supply and fields of barley that still surround the abbey today, will continue what the good friar started over 500 years ago".

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