Cambus 31 Years Old 1993 Cask #48088 (James Eadie)

Single grain Cambus, an independent James Eadie bottling, a 31 year old distilled in 1993, from cask 48088 and bottled at 50.9%. Just 349 bottles were filled. A lost Lowland grain distillery near Alloa, Cambus distilled from around 1806 until 1993. It was one of the five grain distilleries that founded the Distillers Company Limited in 1877.

It was worked through continuous column stills from grain, for the light, sweet grain spirit Cambus was known for. Ex-Sherry wood added a dried fruit richness to the sweet grain. Past twenty five years the spirit turns oily and dessert sweet while staying clean. Decades in cask build a waxy, polished depth over the clean grain spirit. Grain whisky like this gains coconut and toffee from decades in active oak. The light, sweet grain takes on a deep, oily richness over many years. The distillery stood near Alloa, in the old brewing and distilling country of the River Devon.

At a hearty 50.9% it carries real weight. The Oloroso brings dried fruit and a nutty depth over the sweet grain. Beneath it run coconut, vanilla and a soft oil. It closes long, sweet and oily. This is a single grain from the lost Cambus distillery.