Cambus 1976-2022 - 45 Year Old - Douglas Laing XOP - Single Cask 5622

INFORMATION

Cambus 1976 - 2022. 45 Year Old. Bottled by Douglas Laing for their Xtra Old Particular (XOP) series. Cask number DL5622. One of 166 hand filled bottles. 700ml. 49.1%.

DISTILLERY:Cambus

DISTILLERY STATUS:Closed

Bottle ABV:49.1%

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

Bottle PRODUCED:166

BOTTLER:Douglas Laing

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK NUMBER:DL5622

CASK TYPE:Grain

REGION:Lowland

DISTILLED YEAR:1976

BOTTLING DATE::2022

AGE:45

Cambus was founded around 1806, originally as a malt whisky distillery, but was switched to grain whisky production from the 1830s onwards. Cambus distillery was one of the original founders of the Distillers Company Ltd (DCL) in 1877, becoming a key pawn in the legal battles between malt and grain distillers early in the 20th century, when DCL released a seven-year-old Cambus grain whisky with the slogan ‘Not A Headache In A Gallon’.

After a catastrophic fire in 1914 Cambus fell silent for over two decades, but was rebuilt in 1937. The distillery was enlarged in the 1950s to encompass gin production and later became a key site for the processing of CO2 and other distillation by-products. Sadly, Cambus later fell victim to the whisky crisis and subsequent consolidations of the 1980s, and was closed by DCL successor United Distillers in 1993.