Haig Club Single Grain Scotch Whisky (John Haig & Co. Ltd.)

Single grain Cameronbridge, an independent John Haig & Co. Ltd bottling, bottled at 40%. Cameronbridge, in the Kingdom of Fife, is Diageo's largest distillery and the home of Scotch grain whisky. Since Port Dundas closed in 2010, Cameronbridge is Diageo's only wholly owned grain distillery.

Distilled in column stills for a clean, sweet grain, building the light Cameronbridge grain style. An ex-Bourbon barrel shaped it, American oak giving coconut and toffee. No age is given, but the dessert sweetness marks it as aged grain. The slow loss of the angel's share concentrates the sweet, oily core over the years. Water comes from Loch Leven, the mash from wheat, the spirit off three column stills. It is among the largest distilleries in Europe, making well over a hundred million litres a year. John Haig's cousin Robert Stein invented the continuous still, and Cameronbridge was among the first to run one.

At 40% it is light and sweet. The ex-Bourbon gives butterscotch, coconut and cream. The texture is oily and buttery, the sweetness coating. Toffee and vanilla see out a long finish. This is a single grain from the home of Scotch grain whisky.