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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.

Signatory Vintage Whisky Company was founded by Andrew Symington in 1988 after a spell as assistant manager at the Prestonfield House Hotel, where he had the opportunity to buy a cask of Glenlivet 1968. A robust and canny businessman, Symington had soon acquired some outstanding parcels of casks from great distilleries, and quickly established a reputation among single malt fans for good value, high quality single casks, the majority of which were released at full strength.
Throughout the 1990s and beyond, Signatory released outstanding whisky from Ardbeg, Glenfarclas, Springbank and many more, with frequently remarkable examples of lost or obscure distilleries. Soon established as one of the leading new wave independent bottlers, Symington was also an early exponent of bottling whiskies without colouring or chill filtration, a policy that has also served Signatory well at their Edradour distillery, which was purchased in 2002.
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£10.00 | 8th May 2025 | 11:57 AM | |
