Scotch Whisky company Douglas Laing has launched the penultimate release in its Old Particular Consortium of Cards series.
The new Scotch whisky is bottled at 50% alcohol strength and it is in line with its earlier releases under the Consortium of Cards series, including the Laphroaig 18 Years Old named ‘Queen of the Hebrides’ and a Ben Nevis 20 Years Old, entitled ‘King of the Hills’.
Douglas Laing & Company’s Cara Laing said: “As a self-confessed sweet tooth, this antique Port Dundas spirit is truly a dream dram. Its sherbety nose hints at the vanilla toffee and rich molasses palate, and runs to an indulgent finish packed with cappuccino, crushed nuts and maple syrup.
“The Port Dundas Distillery, in our home town of Glasgow, closed almost 10 years ago, so it’s a real privilege and pleasure for us to release this finite, charming whisky.”
While Douglas Laing is launching Port Dundas, it is also preparing for the launch of other products in the Old Particular bottling line up.
These include A Strathclyde, an 11 years old single grain Scotch finished in Sherry butt and bottled at 55.5% alcohol strength.
Glen Keith, a 21 year old Scotch whisky, distilled and bottled in 1995. At 21 years old, it is claimed to offer a taste of ‘Grandma’s lemon meringue pie’, Sherry-matured Allt-a-Bhainne, a 16 years old Scotch which is claimed to be bursting with macerated fruit, sweet citrus and long spices and lastly, there is Old Particular Bruichladdich, a 12 year old Scotch, which shows a coffee character with lemon peel and biscuit.
The company stated that the Old Particular series of Scotch whisky is in line with its founder’s philosophy about Scotch whisky must be ‘as natural as it gets’. Old Particular is being offered without colouring or chill filtration and at high alcohol strength.
Image: Douglas Laing to release third in Consortium of Cards series. Photo: Courtesy of Douglas Laing.