Review #27 – Signatory Cask Strength Port Dundas 22 Year

This is my punishment whisky. I drink a bit of it every day (as you can see, quite slowly – possibly a teaspoon every day in the tiny glencairn I received from the Lagavulin distillery) because I foolishly purchased it Edradour. It is here to remind me that I should never judge a Scotch by its age and as a lesson to not be so cheap with whisky.

As we mentioned before, we were at the magical wonderland that is the Edradour distillery (again, highly recommended that you visit) and instead of purchasing a beautiful Signatory bottling of some delicious ancient scotch for around 200GBP, I instead spied the Port Dundas 22 year for a “steal” of around 110GBP. What a terrible mistake. At the time, I also did not quite understand the difference between grain whisky and malt whisky. Now I know.

*Side note: we did, however, also get the Ballechin rum finished cask strength and the Ballechin port finished cask strength bottlings – which were excellent deals and delicious. Reviews forthcoming since we’ve nearly knocked those two bottles off so they’ve been thoroughly “tasted” for tasting notes.

Additional Information

• ABV: 58.7%
• Cask: Hogshead, probably ex-Bourbon.
• Age: 22 years (distilled 1995)
• Cask Number: 64901
• Bottle Number: 91 of 204

About

• Signatory Vintage was established in 1988 as an independent bottler (and subsequently opened a distillery called Edradour on the same land)
• They produce three “collections”: a cask strength collection, un-chill filtered collection, and an 86 proof collection
• Independent bottlers source surplus casks from independent and blender distilleries (according to the Signatory website, there are around 120 single malt distilleries in Scotland, with 40 releasing under their ownand the rest producing blended scotch)
• Read about our visit to Edradour Distillery in this post. The Signatory warehouse is an Aladdin’s cave of old scotches.