Port Dundas 11 Years Old 2009 Cask #197 (Best Dram)

700ml / 61.2%

Single Grain

$130

Port Dundas single grain, 11 year old from 2009 from Best Dram, at 61.2%. Grain whisky carrying red berry and baking spice over sweet grain. A gentle, oak led grain. Buttery, with real depth. A gentle, sippable whisky with real depth. Grain whisky at its most polished and sweet. A ghost distillery grain, finite and growing scarce.

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SKU PDD005 Categories Lowlands, Port Dundas, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Port Dundas

Description

Best Dram selected this single grain Port Dundas, an 11 year old grain, from 2009, drawn from cask 197 and bottled at 61.2%. A small release of 287 bottles. The Glasgow grain distillery Port Dundas, opened in 1811 in the city of Glasgow, was a major grain distillery until closed in 2010 after two hundred years. A founding member of the grain combine DCL in 1877, it supplied blenders across the country.

Distilled on wheat and malted barley and drawn off tall continuous column stills, it began as a clean, sweet grain spirit. A red wine cask shaped it, the tannins and pigments lending red berry, blackcurrant and a baking spice edge. At this age the grain is still light and spirit led, the oak just beginning to sweeten it. Long, cool warehouse ageing lets cask and spirit knit slowly rather than forcing the flavour.

At 61.2%, undiluted, it is concentrated. The red wine cask lends red berry and a baking spice edge, while broken down lignin lends vanilla and oak lactones a gentle coconut, with a butterscotch and toffee sweetness, with the soft grain spirit carrying it. Water is rarely needed, the spirit already soft and open. The finish is long and softly drying. This is a rare survivor from a demolished grain works.