Cameronbridge 21 Years Old 1997 Cask #75792 (James Eadie)

A Cameronbridge single grain, selected and bottled by James Eadie, a 21 year old distilled in 1997, from cask 75792 and bottled at 54.4%. Just 265 bottles were filled. Set in Fife, Cameronbridge has made grain whisky since 1824, the oldest plant of its kind in Scotland. John Haig's cousin Robert Stein invented the continuous still, and Cameronbridge was among the first to run one.

Distilled continuously in column stills from wheat, on Loch Leven water, giving a clean, mellow grain whisky. It was matured in refill ex-Bourbon oak, lending coconut and vanilla. Around twenty five years the grain gains a fuller toffee and an oily weight. Decades turn a light spirit into something rich, oily and tropical. Pot stills for malt whisky were removed in 1929, leaving Cameronbridge a pure grain plant. The site was expanded again in 2007 in a forty million pound investment. The Haig name has been tied to Scottish distilling since the 17th century.

Bottled at a cask strength 54.4%, it is rich. The ex-Bourbon gives crème brûlée, coconut and vanilla. A butterscotch and a creamy oak lift it. It closes long, sweet and oily. This is a soft, oily single grain from Cameronbridge.