Inverleven 29 Years Old 1977 Cask #PDA 363 (Part des Anges)

Part des Anges, the continental bottler whose name nods to the angels' share, placed this 1977 Inverleven in its Closed Distilleries range. Single cask PDA 363 gave 304 bottles for France at 29 years old, drawn from one of the distillery's older surviving vintages.

Inverleven was built in 1938 inside Hiram Walker's Dumbarton grain complex to feed Ballantine's, its pot stills the first in Scotch to be steam-heated. Closed in 1991 and later demolished, it leaves only what sleeps in cask. Matured in a single ex-Bourbon cask, the oak worked slowly across nearly three decades.

Bottled at its natural cask strength of 54.8%. The ex-Bourbon wood carries vanilla from vanillin, coconut from oak lactones and a toasted almond note from furfural. Decades in oak have left it waxy and tropical, ripe fruit over polished wood. A generous outturn of a genuinely scarce malt.