Dumbarton (silent) Claxton's Single Cask Grain Whisky 32 Year Old · 1986 Vintage
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A fascinating bottling of old grain whisky from the long closed and demolished Dumbarton distillery. Renowned for quite a heavy style of whisky, both due to the choice of maize as the grain and the use of American style stainless steel column stills as opposed to the more traditional coffey still, this is an amazing whisky.
Never bottled officially as the whisky went into Ballantines blends, the only chance to try Dumbarton has been in a handful of independant bottles such as this.
The nose has a slight fruitiness with lots of demerara sugar, cereal notes, slight yeastiness and biscuit aromas. The palate is big, rich and mouth filling. More cereal notes, ginger nuts and cream, slight cocoa, coffee, toffee and red fruits. The finish is long though not overpowering, more chocolate and coffee notes (quite sweet and creamy) peanut, almond and vanilla to end.
One of only 96 bottles!
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Tasting Notes
Colour
Dark amber with coppery highlights and a warm mahogany depth.
Nose
Delicate fruitiness mingles with demerara sugar, framing creamy cereal notes and biscuit aromas. A touch of yeastiness adds a soft, bakery-like sweetness, hinting at the whisky’s aged, grain-forward character.
Palate
Big, rich and mouth-filling on the palate, with lingering cereal sweetness and a ginger-nut bite topped by creamy textures. Flavours build with cocoa, coffee and toffee, folded through red fruit and a subtle vanilla- and almond-scented finish. The end stretches long, sweet and chocolatey, with creamy peanut and vanilla echoing.
Finish
Long and not overpowering, the finish drapes chocolate and coffee in sweet, creamy tones. Nutty peanut and almond mingle with vanilla, fading gradually to a warm, lingering finale.
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