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Single grain Port Dundas, 17 year old from 2004 released by Lady of the Glen, at 58.1%. Soft, sweet grain showing toffee, vanilla and coconut cream. Long aged and softly waxy. Sweet and slow to fade. The kind of mature grain that surprises malt drinkers. Increasingly hard to find as the casks run down. Closed in 2010, its grain grows rarer each year.
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Description
This Port Dundas grain was from the independent bottler Lady of the Glen matured to 17 year old, from 2004, drawn from cask 73895 and bottled at 58.1%. Just 603 bottles were filled. Once a vast Glasgow grain distillery, Port Dundas was first run in 1811 beside the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow before being shut in 2010 and demolished soon after. Glasgow was the blending heart of Scotland, and its output flowed into the famous houses.
Port Dundas made its whisky from unpeated wheat with a little malted barley, worked through continuous patent stills to give a light bodied spirit of real finesse. Matured in a first fill ex-Bourbon cask, the refill wood letting the spirit's sweetness show. Well into its second decade, the spirit has softened and the cask sweetness come forward. High strength off the still means the cask, not the spirit, leads the flavour.
At a natural 58.1% it is bold and full. Butterscotch and toffee from the toasted oak, lifted by a sweet vanilla from the wood and the lactones bring coconut and cream, set over the soft tropical fruit of well aged grain. The palate is gentle, sweet and slow, with no rough edges. A creamy, lingering finish rounds it off. This is a taste of Glasgow grain that can no longer be made.
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