Cambus 1988 Aged 29 Years Single Grain Scotch Whisky – Cadenhead (700ml)

Volume: 700ml           ABV: 45.4%           Age: 29 Years Old            Country: Scotland

Date of Distilling: 1988
Date of Bottling: 03/05/1918
Matured In: Bourbon Hogshead
Un-Chillfiltered

Scotch Whisky is known the world-over by the Brand names of large blending companies. These blends are the mixture of the products of various distilleries which were originally independent family owned units. Until the middle of the 20th century there were many small firms that bottled and sold the pure product of the local distilleries. Since Victorian times the firm of William Cadenhead has provided this service. However a diminution of public interest caused the small bottling companies to close down. Only a small handful of distilleries still remain in the ownership of their founding families and even fewer of the bottling companies remain active, William Cadenhead is one of the notable survivors.

Recent revival of interest in the whisky from different single distilleries has caused a surge of new firms to emerge. Many do not actually control their bottling operations and unfortunately feel it necessary to invest fictitious ancestries. However William Cadenhead has a well established pedigree and the experience of over one and a half centuries ensures that our customers can truly rely on what we put in a bottle. They guarantee that they never chill-filter or chemically alter the products that they bottle nor do they add colouring agents. Each of their bottlings of whisky, and indeed of their rums and cognacs, comes from an individually selected cask.

In 1806 the Cambus distillery was founded and produced mainly produced grain whisky. Cambus is a village near Alloa 4 miles east of Stirling. It sits on the River Devon. In 1913 it was destroyed by a fire which forced it to close until 1938. Most of the spirit from this distillery was used in blends. It was closed in 1993 but the spirit still remains being bottled by mainly independent bottlers.

This single grain whisky was distilled in 1988 at the Cambus Distillery before being placed in a Bourbon Hogshead and left to mature for no less than 29 years. It was bottled in 2018 at 45.4% ABV as part of the Cadenhead Single Cask offerings. Only 294 bottles were made available to the world with few remaining.

Our Tasting Notes

Nose: Freshly baked rye bread, vanilla and barley sweetness, old oak, lime citrus and notes of molasses and brown sugar.

Palate: Fruity sweet notes explode on the tongue with oak and soft gentle char or smoke, soft spices and hints of rum.

Finish: Medium to long with Springbank funk, soft smoke and malt sweetness.