Cambus 29 Years Old AtB Darkness (Atom Brands)

Atom Brands bottled this Cambus single grain matured to 29 year old and bottled at 45.7%. Cambus was a founding distillery of DCL, making grain whisky in Clackmannanshire until it closed in 1993. John Moubray converted an old mill, switching from malt to grain stills in the 1830s.

The spirit was made in twin Coffey stills before the distillery closed, for a light, sweet make of real purity. A sherry cask wrapped the sweet grain in dried fruit and a nutty depth. At this age it is rich and waxy, the sweet grain folded into a buttery, oily body. Light grain takes oak readily, the ex-Bourbon lending coconut and vanilla over many years. A fire destroyed the distillery in 1914; it was rebuilt and resumed in the late 1930s. Cambus was once one of the largest grain distilleries in Scotland. 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 45.7% it is smooth and sweet. The Oloroso brings dried fruit and a nutty depth over the sweet grain. A crème brûlée and a polished oak give it depth. Toffee and vanilla see out a long finish. This is a finite single grain from Cambus, closed in 1993.