Port Dundas 29 Years Old 1995 Cask #64936 (Signatory Vintage)

Single grain Port Dundas, picked by Signatory Vintage, 29 year old in the wood, from 1995, drawn from cask 64936 and bottled at 57%. Some 218 bottles were drawn. A landmark Glasgow grain works, Port Dundas was dating to 1811 in the heart of Glasgow's blending trade and closed and cleared after 2010. Grain whisky on this scale was the quiet engine of the Scotch blending trade.

The spirit was distilled continuously in tall Coffey column stills using wheat, malted barley and soft Loch Katrine water, a soft, sweet make ideal for blending. Matured in an ex-Bourbon barrel, wood that rounds the spirit gently. Two decades and more carry the grain into a deep, rounded maturity, concentrated and waxy. With little of its own weight to fight, grain takes a cask's character readily.

Bottled without water at 57%, it is robust. The oak lactones a creamy coconut, vanilla comes from the oak lignin, and a fudge sweetness from caramelised hemicellulose, with grain sweetness running underneath. It is round and creamy on the palate, sweet without cloying. The finish is smooth, sweet and lingering. This is ever scarcer now the distillery is gone.