DeLuxe Blended 33 Years Old Rarest of the Rare DeLuxe Blended (Duncan Taylor)

DeLuxe Blended 33 Years Old Rarest of the Rare DeLuxe Blended (Duncan Taylor) is a blended Scotch from Duncan Taylor. It draws on rare and closed distilleries, Carsebridge grain among them. Diageo released an official Carsebridge as a 48 year old in the 2018 Special Releases.

The lost Carsebridge adds the deep, sweet grain of a vanished distillery. It was matured in refill ex-Bourbon oak, coconut and vanilla drawn slowly into the grain. Light grain takes oak readily, the ex-Bourbon lending coconut and vanilla over many years. It was one of the grain distilleries that founded the Distillers Company in 1877. Alfred Barnard admired its two elegant Coffey stills on his visit in the 1880s. It switched from malt to grain in 1852, installing two of the new Coffey continuous stills. With the distillery gone, the casks that remain are a finite record of its make.

At 43.4% it is light and sweet. Coconut, vanilla, toffee and a soft oil run through it, with a creamy oak depth. Coconut, toffee and a tropical fruit fill the middle. A long, buttery finish ends on coconut and vanilla. A characterful blended Scotch drawing on grain from a vanished distillery.