Cameronbridge 23 Years Old 1990 Cask #HL 9860 (The Sovereign)

Single grain Cameronbridge, an independent Hunter Laing bottling, a 23 year old distilled in 1990, from cask HL 9860 and bottled at 59.2%. Cameronbridge is a Lowland grain distillery in Fife, founded in 1824 by John Haig and now the largest distillery in Scotland. Since Port Dundas closed in 2010, Cameronbridge is Diageo's only wholly owned grain distillery.

The spirit was run off the distillery's three column stills from a wheat mash, to build a soft, sweet grain character. An ex-Bourbon barrel shaped it, American oak giving coconut and toffee. Around twenty five years the grain gains a fuller toffee and an oily weight. Time in oak deepens the toffee and crème brûlée notes of aged grain. Light grain spirit like this gains coconut and toffee from decades in active oak. 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.

At its natural 59.2% it is concentrated. The ex-Bourbon gives coconut, toffee and a creamy caramel. The texture is oily and buttery, the sweetness coating. A long, oily finish carries a coconut lift. This is a single grain from the home of Scotch grain whisky.