Port Dundas 30 Years Old 1988 (Cadenhead’s)

Single Cask

700ml / 51.3%

Single Grain

$355

Single grain Port Dundas, 30 year old from 1988 a Cadenhead’s bottling, at 51.3%. A creamy grain with toffee, vanilla and coconut cream. Soft, oily grain whisky of real age. Oily and mouth coating. A collectable dram from a vanished grain giant. Sweet, creamy and built for slow enjoyment. Closed in 2010, its grain grows rarer each year.

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SKU PDD008 Categories Lowlands, Port Dundas, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Port Dundas

Description

This Port Dundas grain was from the independent bottler Cadenhead's, a 30 year old from 1988 and bottled at 51.3%. Just 246 bottles were filled. Port Dundas was a vast Glasgow grain distillery, founded in 1811 in the north of Glasgow and shut in 2010 and demolished soon after. It once absorbed its neighbours to stand as the biggest distillery in Scotland.

Port Dundas made its whisky from a wheat mash drawn on Loch Katrine water, run through the distillery's continuous Coffey stills to give a light bodied spirit of real finesse. Ex-Bourbon American oak held the spirit, gentle wood that flatters light grain. Decades in wood take the light spirit into an oxidative maturity, full and gently waxy. Grain matures faster than malt, the oak shaping a light spirit into something sweet and round.

Undiluted at 51.3%, it is intense. The oak lactones a creamy coconut, vanilla comes from the oak lignin, and a fudge sweetness from caramelised hemicellulose, across a soft, fruity grain backbone. Sweet and creamy, it coats the palate gently. The close is soft, oily and warm. This is a finite drop from a vanished Lowland grain distillery.

Additional information

Weight

1.6 kg