Port Dundas 21 Years Old 1992 Cask #HH 9452 (Hunter Hamilton)

Hunter Hamilton bottled this Port Dundas grain matured to 21 year old, from 1992, drawn from cask HH 9452 and bottled at 55.7%. Once Scotland's largest distillery in its prime, Port Dundas was raised in 1811 at the highest point in Glasgow before being wound down by Diageo in 2010. By the 1880s it was pouring out millions of gallons a year for the blenders.

The spirit was worked through continuous patent stills from unpeated wheat with a little malted barley, the gentle grain make once destined for blends. Matured in an ex-Bourbon barrel, wood that rounds the spirit gently. At this age grain grows rich and oily, the long oak contact building real depth. With little of its own weight to fight, grain takes a cask's character readily.

At a hearty 55.7% it shows real weight. The oak lactones a creamy coconut, vanilla comes from the oak lignin, and a fudge sweetness from caramelised hemicellulose, over the orchard and tropical fruit of mature grain. There is a buttery, dessert like quality long aged grain does so well. It fades slowly on vanilla and oak. This is grain from a Glasgow landmark that stands no more.