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Single grain Port Dundas, 16 year old selected by Douglas McGibbon, at 54.4%. Sweet and oily, showing toffee, vanilla and coconut cream. A gentle, oak led grain. Sweet and slow to fade. The kind of mature grain that surprises malt drinkers. Increasingly hard to find as the casks run down. A closed distillery grain, ever rarer since 2010.
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From Douglas McGibbon comes this Port Dundas single grain, aged 16 year old,, drawn from cask DMG 14620 and bottled at 54.4%. 143 bottles in all. Opened in 1811 in the city of Glasgow, Port Dundas grew into one of Scotland's great grain distilleries before being closed in 2010 just short of two centuries. Glasgow was the blending heart of Scotland, and its output flowed into the famous houses.
Port Dundas made its whisky on a wheat led mash with Loch Katrine water, made in patent column stills rather than pot stills to give a light grain spirit that takes oak quickly. Refill American oak shaped it, soft wood that lets the grain lead. Fifteen years or so gives the oak time to build sweetness over the light spirit. Grain enters the cask light and clean, so the wood's character shows clearly against it.
At a hearty 54.4% it shows real weight. The oak lactones a creamy coconut, vanilla comes from the oak lignin, and a fudge sweetness from caramelised hemicellulose, with the soft grain spirit carrying it. A gentle spice and polished oak frame the sweetness. A long, dessert sweet finish lingers. This is a taste of Glasgow grain that can no longer be made.
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