Tomatin 1989 Cu Bocan

Distilled in 1989, this is a limited edition bottling of smokey whisky from Tomatin distillery. Made from whisky matured in three ex-bourbon casks. This is a cask strength, a collectable release of only 1080 bottles worldwide.

For those that are interested, Cù Bòcan has stalked residents of the remote Highland village of Tomatin for centuries, his legend embellished by the hellhound's increasingly fractious behaviour.

Sightings are rare, once in a generation, always terrifying. A distillery worker, out walking late, was once relentlessly pursued by an imposing black beast, steam spiralling from flared nostrils, teeth bared.

Compelled beyond all natural reason to feel the hound's dense fur he stopped and reached out, hand trembling, only to see the ghostly spectre - Cù Bòcan - dissolve before his eyes leaving nothing but a vacuum of deathly silence and an inky blue cloud of smoke, soon spirited away across the peat moorland…