Dumbarton 30 Year Old 1987 Sovereign TWB 10th Anniversary

Name: Dumbarton 30 Year Old 1987 Sovereign TWB 10th Anniversary
Brand: Dumbarton
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Dumbarton 30 Year Old 1987 Sovereign TWB 10th Anniversary

£360.00 GBP

£300.00 ex VAT

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Bottle Information

Bottler: Hunter Laing & Co.

Cask: #14247

Cask Type: refill barrel

Type: Single Grain Scotch

Volume: 70cl

Region: Lowland

Vintage: 1987

Age: 30 Year Old

ABV: 55.30%

Tasting Notes

Nose Elegant and inviting, with notes of vanilla, coconut, honeyed sweetness, polished oak, and soft spice, alongside hints of caramel and toasted grains. Palate Silky and complex, offering flavours of toffee, vanilla cream, baked apple, gentle spice, and refined oak, with a smooth, rounded mouthfeel. Finish Long and warming, with lingering sweetness, soft spice, and delicate oak.

Dumbarton 30 Year Old 1987 Sovereign TWB 10th Anniversary is a rare and highly collectible Lowland single grain Scotch whisky from the closed Dumbarton Distillery, bottled by Hunter Laing & Co. for their Sovereign series. Distilled in March 1987 and matured for 30 years in a single refill barrel (#14247), this exceptional expression was bottled in September 2017 as a specially selected exclusive release to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of The Whisky Barrel, with just 160 individually numbered bottles produced.

Dumbarton is one of Scotland’s lost grain distilleries, and long-aged examples such as this are increasingly scarce. Extended maturation in refill American oak allows the whisky to develop a beautifully refined and silky profile, rich in vanilla, coconut, toffee, and gentle spice, with remarkable smoothness and balance.

Why We Think You’ll Love It

Rare Lowland single grain Scotch whisky from the closed Dumbarton Distillery
Distilled March 1987, bottled September 2017
Matured for 30 years in a single refill barrel #14247
Limited release of 160 individually numbered bottles
Bottled by Hunter Laing & Co. for the Sovereign series
Exclusive 10th Anniversary release for The Whisky Barrel

The Dumbarton 30 Year Old 1987 Sovereign TWB 10th Anniversary is a beautifully matured and highly collectible grain whisky, offering elegance, depth, and exceptional smoothness. A superb addition for collectors and connoisseurs of long-aged Scotch whisky.

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The Distillery

Dumbarton Distillery, a lost Lowland grain distillery established by Hiram Walker in 1938 on the site of the former McMillan shipyard, once dominated the banks of the River Leven and River Clyde in Dumbarton. Equipped with a Cincinnati-made continuous still, it grew to become one of Scotland’s largest grain distilleries, primarily using maize and water sourced from Loch Lomond to produce spirit destined for Ballantine’s blended whiskies. Despite its prominence, Dumbarton closed in 2002, with most of its structures demolished by 2008, sealing its fate as a significant yet lost chapter in Scotland’s Lowland whisky heritage. While the site no longer stands, the distillery’s legacy endures through single cask bottlings released by Hunter Laing & Co., preserving Dumbarton’s unique contribution to Scottish grain whisky history.

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