Malaysia’s first (and only) independent whisky bottler

Eiling Lim, Malaysia’s first and only independent whisky bottler wants to offer whisky drinkers more variety and more choices other than just those from the famous distilleries. Photo: Eiling Lim

It started with a little dram of Littlemill, which Eiling Lim and her husband Luc Timmermans loved so much that they just had to have all of it.

“Someone brought us a sample of a single malt from Littlemill, a distillery I had never even heard of before at the time,” she said during an interview in Kuala Lumpur. “When we tried it, we fell in love with it and just had to have it. We bought the remainder of the cask, but after that, we wondered what to do with it. Were we going to drink all the bottles ourselves?”