Scotland, Campbeltown: Single malt whisky through the producing distilleries: history, making, production and tasting notes

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Dumbarton

Description of the whisky

The distillery

Dumbarton distillery
Dumbarton distillery
2 Glasgow Road
Dumbarton GB2 1ND
Owner: Pernod Ricard
Creation date: 1938

The distillery has been created in 1938 by Hiram Walker, short after he acquired Ballantine in 1936. This grain distillery has been the greatest in Scotland.
Several distilleries shared the site: Dumbarton, Inverleven and Lomond. All of them are closed by now. The distilery was not famous only because it ahs been the biggest in Scotland, but also because its original security system (Scotch Watch) consisting in 5 geese. In 2001, 100 birds were watching on the installations.
Hiram Walker sold the distillery to Allied Distillers which would later become Allied Domecq. When Pernod Ricard acquired Allied Domecq, they also became the owner of Dumbarton. The distillery is closed with no hope to reopen inthe future. Main reason herefor is that the installations are very old and difficult to modify. To compensate the production lost because of this closing, big investments have been made at Strathclyde.

The whisky

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List of the bottles

Description of the distillery

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Dumbarton: independent bottlers

Dunbarton 1964
Celtic Heartlands
Age
 42 years
Alcohol
 46,7%
Bottler
 Murray McDavid
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Dumbarton 1965
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Dunbarton 1964
Clan Denny
Age
 40 years
Alcohol
 52,1%
Bottler
 Douglas Laing
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Dumbarton 1964 Clan Denny
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Single Grain

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