Cambus 28 Years Old 1988 Cask #DL 11607 (Old Particular)

Single grain Cambus, an independent Douglas Laing bottling, a 28 year old release distilled in 1988, from cask DL 11607 and bottled at 50.1%. Just 280 bottles were filled. Cambus was a Lowland grain distillery on the River Devon in Clackmannanshire, founded around 1806 and closed in 1993. It was one of the five grain distilleries that founded the Distillers Company Limited in 1877.

The spirit was run off the distillery's continuous column stills, to build a soft, sweet grain character. An ex-Bourbon barrel shaped it, American oak giving coconut and toffee. Past twenty five years the spirit turns oily and dessert sweet while staying clean. Continuous distillation gives a light, clean spirit, so decades in oak drive much of the flavour. Most surviving Cambus was distilled in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before the doors closed. Grain whisky like this gains coconut and toffee from decades in active oak.

At its natural 50.1% it is concentrated. The ex-Bourbon gives vanilla, cream and a dessert sweetness. Beneath it run coconut, vanilla and a soft oil. The close is soft, dessert sweet over oak. This is a single grain from the lost Cambus distillery.