Cambus 35 Years Old 1989 Cask #150606 (Jewish Whisky Company)

Jewish Whisky Company selected this Cambus, aged 35 year old distilled in 1989, from cask 150606 and bottled at 57.4%. The outturn was 206 bottles. Cambus, a silent grain distillery on the River Devon, made whisky from about 1806 to 1993. In 1906 its grain was advertised on the front of the Daily Mail as not a headache in a gallon, during the What is Whisky debate.

Distilled continuously in two Coffey stills from a grain mash, giving a clean, mellow grain whisky. A sherry cask wrapped the sweet grain in dried fruit and a nutty depth. At thirty five years and more it is rich and oily, coconut, butterscotch and tropical fruit over old oak. Grain whisky like this rewards very long maturation, the wood adding most of the character. With no new spirit since 1993, every bottle draws on a finite, dwindling stock. Cambus was founded around 1806 by John Moubray on the River Devon in Clackmannanshire, one of Scotland's oldest grain distilleries.

At its natural 57.4% it is concentrated. The Oloroso brings dried fruit and a nutty depth over the sweet grain. The texture is oily and buttery, the sweetness coating. The finish runs buttery, soft and warm. This is the sweet, oily grain of a vanished DCL distillery.