Port Dundas 35 Year Old 1978 Director's Cut

Name: Port Dundas 35 Year Old 1978 Director's Cut
Brand: Port Dundas
Price: 720.0 GBP
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Step back into Glasgow’s whisky past with Port Dundas 35 Year Old – 1978 Vintage, Douglas Laing Director’s Cut. Read more

Port Dundas 35 Year Old 1978 Director's Cut

£720.00 GBP

£600.00 ex VAT

Sale Sold out

Bottle Information

Bottler: Douglas Laing & Co.

Cask: #9729

Cask Type: refill hogshead

Type: Single Grain Scotch

Volume: 70cl

Region: Lowland

Vintage: 1978

Age: 35 Year Old

ABV: 59.20%

Tasting Notes

Nose: Big - full & sweet - hints of oak plus an obvious vanilla/honey combination. Palate: Equally full/mouthcoating + a citric tang + a vanilla/maple/caramel twist. Finish: Continues its sweet route - suprisingly long + spices and butterscotch.

Step back into Glasgow’s whisky past with Port Dundas 35 Year Old – 1978 Vintage, Douglas Laing Director’s Cut. Distilled at the now-demolished Lowland grain giant and matured for three and a half decades in a single refill hogshead (#9729), this whisky was bottled in April 2013 for Douglas Laing’s premium Director’s Cut series. Presented at natural cask strength, un-chill-filtered and natural in colour, only 260 individually numbered bottles reveal a satin-smooth tapestry of tropical fruit, silky vanilla and polished oak—an elegant echo of Port Dundas’s storied coffey stills.

Why We Think You’ll Love It

A venerable 35-year single-grain whisky from the lost Port Dundas distillery—now an essential collectible.
Drawn from a single refill hogshead (#9729), allowing decades-deep vanilla sweetness, tropical fruit and refined oak to shine.
Bottled at natural cask strength, non-chill-filtered and natural colour for undiluted texture, aroma and authenticity.
Limited to just 260 bottles in Douglas Laing’s Director’s Cut line—perfect for connoisseurs of long-aged grain whisky and silent-still rarities.

Toast Glasgow’s whisky heritage with this distinguished Port Dundas—where silky grain elegance, tropical sweetness and polished oak converge in every luxurious sip.

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The Distillery

Port Dundas Distillery, founded by Daniel McFarlane in 1811 in Glasgow’s Port Dundas area, was a cornerstone of Scotland’s whisky industry. The area rapidly evolved into an industrial hub with three distilleries sharing the Port Dundas name. By 1845, the two operating distilleries adopted Coffey stills for grain spirit production and merged in 1877, becoming the world’s largest distillery by 1885, processing corn, barley, and rye, with grain imported from America. At its peak in 1886, it featured two malt kilns, five grain kilns, thirty-five washbacks, three Coffey stills, and five pot stills. The distillery closed in 2010, with demolition following shortly after, marking the end of a significant chapter in whisky history.

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