Cameronbridge 25 Years Old 1991 Cask #DL 11644 (Old Particular)

This Cameronbridge was from the independent bottler Douglas Laing, a 25 year old distilled in 1991, from cask DL 11644 and bottled at 52.4%. The outturn was 534 bottles. Cameronbridge, in the Kingdom of Fife, is Diageo's largest distillery and the home of Scotch grain whisky. It was the home of continuous distillation in Scotland; John Haig installed Stein then Coffey stills and made the country's first commercial grain whisky.

Distilled in column stills for a clean, sweet grain, building the light Cameronbridge grain style. 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. Maturation in American oak suits the light, sweet grain particularly well. The distillery sits at Windygates in the Kingdom of Fife, near the River Leven. Light grain spirit like this gains coconut and toffee from decades in active oak.

Bottled at a cask strength 52.4%, it is rich. The ex-Bourbon gives butterscotch, coconut and cream. The mouthfeel is oily, the coconut carried on a sweet body. Toffee and vanilla see out a long finish. This is a single grain from Scotland's largest grain distillery.