Port Dundas 1973 34 Years Old Cask No 128317 Single Grain Whisky by Duncan Taylor

Port Dundas 1973 34 Years Old Cask No 128317 Single Grain Whisky by Duncan Taylor

$625 AUD

57.9% 70 cl

This is bottle no 253 out of only 256 to spring from this sherry wood cask. Distilled in January 1973 and bottled in February, 2007. It is part of the Rare Auld series of Duncan Taylor who have done much to educate the whisky community in the merits of fine single grains, such as this lovely example.

 This product is located in Australia.

Distillery

Port Dundas Distillery

This was a major production component in the Diageo world and its demise came as a surprise to many. When Barnard visited it, Port Dundas was the biggest distillery in the United Kingdom. When I turned up 100 years later it still retained that distinction! And the number of employees were similar – 250 in Barnard’s day and 270 when I was there. But productive capacity had multiplied many times. Much innovation and expansion had taken place and more was planned and did take place in subsequent years.  Consequently, I concluded that “…it seems that the owners’ long term aim is to make Port Dundas the flag-ship of the Group….”. How wrong can one be!

Having been established in 1811, its 200 years of existence was celebrated by its final closure in 2011! However, they did manage to produce a 200th anniversary single grain for the occasion, it being all of 19 years old.

A sorry end to what had been a very impressive operation, and all the more so as it had been one of the six founding distilleries which combined to create DCL in 1877.

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