Port Dundas 22 Years Old 1995 Cask #64901 (Signatory Vintage)

A Port Dundas single grain, selected and bottled by Signatory Vintage, aged 22 year old, from 1995, drawn from cask 64901 and bottled at 58.7%. The outturn was 204 bottles. Raised in 1811 at the highest point in Glasgow, Port Dundas grew into an enormous grain distillery before being silenced in 2010 as grain moved to Cameronbridge. 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. Matured in a first fill ex-Bourbon cask, the refill wood letting the spirit's sweetness show. Two decades and more carry the grain into a deep, rounded maturity, concentrated and waxy. High strength off the still means the cask, not the spirit, leads the flavour.

At its natural 58.7% it is powerful. Creme brulee from the caramelised hemicellulose, lifted by the wood gives vanilla and a creamy coconut from the oak, over a clean, fruity grain base. A touch of warm spice lifts the creamy body. A long, dessert sweet finish lingers. This is a taste of Glasgow grain that can no longer be made.