The legendary Ladyburn distillery was established by William Grant and Sons Limited in 1966. Ladyburn was intended to provide a small amount of single malt to be used as part of blended whisky. However, in 1975, the distillery was closed and later demolished in 1976, making it one of the shortest-lived distilleries in Scotch Whisky history, with merely nine years of operations. During its operational lifetime, Ladyburn didn't release any official bottlings. The only two releases were in 1980 and 2000, both for non-commercial purposes. The short production history and scarcity are the reasons that Ladyburn is mostly of interest for malt whisky collectors, and is also known as “one of the incredibly hardest-to-find single malt whisky in the history”.