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Single grain Port Dundas, 28 year old from 1988 from Douglas Laing, at 50%. Grain whisky carrying coconut, toffee and vanilla. Light grain matured deep and sweet. A smooth pour, no water needed. The kind of mature grain that surprises malt drinkers. Increasingly hard to find as the casks run down. A closed distillery grain, ever rarer since 2010.
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A Port Dundas single grain, selected and bottled by Douglas Laing, a 28 year old grain, from 1988, drawn from cask DL 11693 and bottled at 50%. Just 290 bottles were filled. The Glasgow grain distillery Port Dundas, built in 1811 above the city of Glasgow, was an enormous grain distillery until silenced in 2010 as grain moved to Cameronbridge. It once absorbed its neighbours to stand as the biggest distillery in Scotland.
Port Dundas made its whisky on wheat and malted barley, drawn off tall continuous column stills to give a light grain spirit that takes oak quickly. It was matured in a first fill ex-Bourbon cask, the refill wood letting the spirit's sweetness show. Decades in wood take the light spirit into an oxidative maturity, full and gently waxy. Grain matures faster than malt, the oak shaping a light spirit into something sweet and round.
At its natural 50% it is powerful. The oak lactones a creamy coconut, vanilla comes from the oak lignin, and a fudge sweetness from caramelised hemicellulose, with the soft grain spirit carrying it. A faint waxy note gives it weight on the tongue. The finish runs long, creamy and gently spiced. This is a finite drop from a vanished Lowland grain distillery.
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