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The Port Dundas whisky distillery was built in the north of Glasgow in the early 1800s and began making grain whisky alongside malt whisky in the 1840s. By 1886, when Alfred Barnard made it the first stop on his epic distillery tour for The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom, Port Dundas was making over 11 million litres of spirit per year and had already become a key member of the original Distillers Company Limited (DCL) grain whisky cartel.
Port Dundas was extensively damaged by fires in 1903 and 1916. The distillery was rebuilt both times, but production was sporadic until a further major refit after WWII, by which time Port Dundas was only making single grain whisky for DCL’s blends. Port Dundas was modernised and expanded again in the 1970s and had a production capacity of around 39 million litres per annum when owners Diageo finally decided to close the facility in 2010, the distillery’s Bicentenary year.
Duncan Taylor was founded in 1938, originally as a cask broker. The Glasgow-based company was acquired in the 1960s by the American blender and entrepreneur Abe Rosenberg, who amassed a large stock of maturing casks. Following Rosenberg’s death in 1994 the Duncan Taylor business lay dormant until the early 2000s, when the trustees offered some casks to businessmen Euan Shand and Alan Gordon.
Shand and Gordon were so impressed with Duncan Taylor’s stock that they bought the company in 2002 and began bottling some of Rosenberg’s best casks. A string of extraordinary bottlings of Longmorn, Macallan, Bowmore and Springbank were released under the now defunct Peerless range and today Duncan Taylor, with Shand in full control since 2006, is established as one of Scotland’s most interesting independent bottlers.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £245.00 | 2nd April 2025 | 20:07 | |
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