Saltire Uncommon Malt Launches Landmark Port Dundas 20-Yr-Previous in Mizunara Oak

Saltire Uncommon Malt, one among Scotland’s fastest-growing unbiased bottlers, has unveiled its most bold launch to this point with the launch of a 20-year-old single grain from the long-lost Port Dundas Distillery. Completed in virgin Japanese Mizunara oak and restricted to simply 558 bottles.

That is Saltire Uncommon Malt’s first-ever single grain bottling, its oldest launch to this point, and the primary time it has labored with Mizunara oak, one of many rarest and most costly woods within the whisky world. Bottled at pure cask energy of 59.7% ABV, with out chill filtration or colouring, the discharge kinds a part of the ‘Misplaced Distillery Collection’, a set created in homage to Scotland’s closed and forgotten whisky-making landmarks.

The Port Dundas Distillery, as soon as one of many largest grain distilleries in Europe, operated in Glasgow for practically two centuries earlier than its closure in 2010. For collectors, casks from Port Dundas are an opportunity to style a bit of Scotland’s whisky heritage, a spirit that’s more and more scarce. Saltire Uncommon Malt has taken this rarity additional by ending the whisky in virgin Mizunara oak, a Japanese wooden revered for its porous construction and skill to impart complicated layers of sandalwood, coconut and incense-like spice.

The discharge has been curated in collaboration with Hans and Becky Offringa, recognized internationally as “The Whisky Couple”. Their tasting notes describe purple fruit, cedar wooden, waffles, maple syrup and heat leather-based, portray a picture of “a classic convertible with leather-based upholstery and a wood dashboard, basking within the solar.”

Saltire Uncommon Malt was based in Falkland, Fife, in 2024 by long-time mates and whisky collectors Nigel Heywood and Keith Rennie. Located within the historic market city reverse Falkland Palace, the corporate launched on the 530th anniversary of the primary recorded reference to Scotch whisky. Its philosophy is easy but uncompromising: every cask is bottled solely when it has reached absolute maturity, with no dashing of the method.

The Port Dundas 20-Yr-Previous Mizunara Oak bottling is offered solely by way of Saltire Uncommon Malt’s web site.