Strathclyde 27 Years Old 1988 Cask #DH 10975 (Douglas Hamilton)

A Strathclyde single grain, selected and bottled by Douglas Hamilton, a 27 year old release from 1988, drawn from cask DH 10975 and bottled at 55%. Set in Glasgow, on the Clyde, Strathclyde has made grain whisky since 1927. It is the only distillery left in Glasgow, once one of Scotland's great whisky cities.

It was drawn off continuous Coffey stills from a wheat mash, for a delicate spirit that leans on the cask for flavour. It rested in ex-Bourbon oak, the wood adding coconut, vanilla and toffee. Past twenty five years the spirit turns oily and dessert sweet while staying clean. Decades in oak build a waxy, polished depth over the clean spirit. Aged single grain has become prized for its soft, oily, dessert sweet character. The continuous still gives a clean, high strength spirit that mellows with years. Strathclyde takes its name from the old region around Glasgow. Decades in ex-Bourbon wood turn light grain into a rich, oily whisky.

At its natural 55% it is concentrated. The ex-Bourbon gives sweet vanilla and a buttery coconut. The mouthfeel is oily, the coconut carried on a sweet body. A warming, sweet finish lingers. This is a soft, dessert sweet Lowland grain whisky.