Port Dundas 30 Years Old 1995 Cask #64947 (Signatory Vintage)

Bottled by Signatory Vintage, this Port Dundas single grain, a 30 year old from 1995, drawn from cask 64947 and bottled at 58.3%. Just 220 bottles were filled. Port Dundas was a giant of Lowland grain whisky, opened in 1811 in the city of Glasgow and brought to an end in 2010. 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. Refill American oak held the spirit, soft wood that lets the grain lead. At this age grain grows rich and oily, the long oak contact building real depth. The light make leaves room for the oak sugars and vanillin to come forward.

At 58.3% it is big and oily. 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. Water is rarely needed, the spirit already soft and open. The finish is long and softly drying. This is a finite drop from a vanished Lowland grain distillery.