Cambus 40 year old Refill Sherry Butt Fragrant Drops
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Cambus 40 year old Refill Sherry Butt Fragrant Drops
- Bottled: 15NOV84
- Distilled: 16JUN25
- ABV: 45.6%ABV
- No of Bottled: 368
Cambus Distillery
Cambus was a key Lowland grain distillery and a founding member of DCL in 1877, helping establish grain spirit as ‘whisky’ despite starting as a malt distillery in 1806. Founded by John Moubray in Alloa, it switched to grain production in 1836 with Stein patent stills, later adding a Coffey still in 1851 to become one of Scotland’s largest grain distilleries.
In the mid-19th century, Cambus joined market-sharing agreements to stabilise demand and expanded after acquiring the adjacent Cambus Old Brewery in 1882. During the early 1900s “What is Whisky?” trials, DCL used Cambus Pure Grain Whisky in a publicity campaign that helped secure the right to call grain spirit whisky.
A devastating fire in 1914 shut the distillery for 23 years. Reopened in 1937, it saw new facilities including a gin plant (1952), CO₂ plant (1953), and Scotland’s first distillery by-products plant (1964). After absorbing the North of Scotland distillery’s facilities in 1982, Cambus operated until its closure in 1993 under Diageo’s production reorganisation.
The site later became a cask filling and warehousing centre, and in 2011 a £9m cooperage was built, now operating alongside the Blackgrange warehousing complex.