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Cambus 1979 Douglas Laing XOP Black

Lot: 5115527

Cambus 1979 Douglas Laing XOP Black

Winning Bid: £290

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Cambus
Age: 
40 year old
Vintage: 
1979
Region: 
Lowland
Bottler: 
Douglas Laing
Cask Type: 
Refill hogshead
Bottled Strength: 
53.5%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Cambus 1979 Douglas Laing XOP Black

Douglas Laing & Co was established in 1948 by Fred Douglas Laing, affectionately known as “FDL.” The company started out as a blending business, but over time their focus shifted towards independently bottlings single malts. Fred died in 1982, leaving the business to his two sons, Stewart and Fred Jr, who eventually carved it up in 2013, with Stewart leaving to establish Hunter Laing. Fred Jr and his daughter Cara now run Douglas Laing, which continues to bottle single malt and has also revived its blending business. Additionally, the company has recently moved into distilling as well, announcing plans to construct the new Clutha distillery in Glasgow, and taking over Strathearn in Perthshire in 2019.

Old Particular is Douglas Laing's flagship label, and was launched in 2013 after their Old Malt Cask series became part of the portfolio of the newly established Hunter Laing. Xtra Old Particular is the premium version of the brand, placed at the pinnacle of its Exceptional Single Casks range and is reserved for casks the company considers the Laing "family jewels.”

This Cambus single grain was bottled in 2019 as part of the XOP 'The Black Series.' It was distilled in April 1979 and matured in refill Hogshead #13461, yielding 312 bottles.

Cambus distillery was built in 1806 by John Moubray, on the site of an old mill in Alloa, and initially distilled whisky from malted barley. Production swapped to grain thirty years later, which was fully modernised in 1851 by the installation of a coffey still. Cambus became a founding member of DCL in 1877, who bottled its single grain for the first time in 1906 during a battle with malt distillers over the use of the term "whisky." Occasional runs of distillery bottlings continued to appear during the 20th century, but the distillery was sadly closed down in 1993 during a mass reorganising of their portfolio by its owners, United Distillers. The site now houses a Diageo cooperage, opened in 2011. Independent releases like this have often appeared over the years, and are increasingly sought after as the remaining stocks begin to thin.

 

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