Daftmill, Summer Batch Release - 2012 - Bottled 2025

Daftmill Summer Batch Release.

Lowland Single Malt Scotch Whisky.

Distilled in 2012 and bottled in 2025.

Limited edition of 5,250 bottles. 

The barley variety Concerto was grown in the South fields and harvested on the 2nd and 3rd of September 2011.

It was then dried and stored on the farm to be malted in Alloa during the spring of 2012.

The twenty-three first fill barrels in this release, which had previously been used to mature bourbon, were matured on the upper level of the dunnage warehouse. They were filled into cask in July and August of 2012 and bottled in June 2025. 

Daftmill background:

Daftmill Distillery is situated near Cupar in Fife, making it one of just seventeen Lowland distilleries currently releasing whisky, with 6 more under construction or active but not yet releasing. 

However, Daftmill was the pioneer - commissioned in 2004, though only began production in earnest in 2005, it marked start of the new wave of distilleries. At that time it was the first malt whisky distillery in Fife since Auchertool closed its doors in 1927.

The business is owned by Francis and lan Cuthbert whose family has farmed the land since the 1980s.

What makes Daftmill unique is the traditional nature of the production schedule - Daftmill is a true farm distillery. All the barley used for production is farmed by Francis on the estate. The whisky is all distilled by Francis in the farm off-season; two months in summer and two months in winter - this is a very traditional way of running a distillery that hasn't been seen in Scotland since the 1800s.

Daftmill is also one of Scotland's smallest distilleries by output, distilling only 20,000 LPA or about 100 casks per year.

100% single estate Scotch Malt Whisky

The first farm distillery produced by the farmer. A true one-man band.