Cameronbridge 1984-2019 - 35 Year Old - Artful Dodger - Single Cask 27679

Cameronbridge is one of Europe’s largest distilleries with a capacity, as of 2023, of around 130-150 million litres of spirit per annum. The Cameronbridge distillery was built in 1824 near the Fife town of Windygates by John Haig of the eponymous whisky blending and distilling dynasty and today has several functions, making neutral grain spirit for Tanqueray, Gordon’s and Smirnoff as well as grain whisky for Diageo’s blends and the Haig Club single grain whisky formerly endorsed by David Beckham.

Cameronbridge was one of the original founders of the famous Distillers Company Limited grain whisky cartel and nowadays is Diageo’s only wholly-owned grain whisky distillery, equipped with three Coffey continuous stills each capable of producing 4000 litres per hour. Aside from Haig Club, official bottlings of Cameronbridge’s grain whisky are rare, though in recent years some excellent indie bottlings have appeared.

The Artful Dodger is a range of independently-bottled whiskies spun off from drinks merchants Woolf Drinks (formerly Woolf / Sung). Woolf Drinks was founded by Sebastian Woolf in 2012, with the first Artful Dodger whiskies appearing in 2018. The Artful Dodger brand is also associated with Woolf’s Brighton whisky bar Cut Your Wolf Loose.

Artful Dodger whiskies are packaged in eye-catching half-litre (50cl) apothecary bottles, and are always bottled at full cask strength without colouring or chill filtration. At the time of writing in 2024, there had been nearly thirty Artful Dodger releases since 2018, encompassing Scottish and Irish single malt, single grain, blended malt and blended Scotch whiskies as well as bourbon and even new make spirit. The company has won numerous awards for both its whiskies and its packaging design.