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Single Grain

"I wish I had a twenty pound note for each time I had been told in recent years how much someone enjoys a single grain" says Jim Murray, "The ones the connoisseurs die for are the older versions." Grain whisky is distilled in a column still from a variety of cereals like corn or wheat with a touch of malted barley for good measure. It's wood matured and, yes, it's classified as genuine whisky. Just like single malts, grain whiskies have their own style and signature. But because they've been almost entirely reserved for the blended whisky market, they've been much harder to find. It's only in the last decade that more and more single grain whiskies are being offered to flaunt the fact that they can be stunning in their own right - and some with prices as big as their age statements!
Vintage: 2007 Product: 2007 Claxton's Exploration Series Strathclyde 16 Year Old Single Cask Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 90 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$149.99

Dozen Price:

$1799.88

Vintage: 2006 Product: 2006 Claxton's Exploration Series Cameronbridge 15 Year Old Single Cask Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 92 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$149.99

Dozen Price:

$1799.88

Vintage: Product: Claxton's Grain Barn 30 Year Old Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 94 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$199.99

Dozen Price:

$2399.88

Vintage: 2008 Product: 2008 House of MacDuff The Golden Cask North British 14 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 93 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$149.99

Dozen Price:

$1799.88

Vintage: 1989 Product: 1989 House of MacDuff The Golden Cask Girvan 32 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 93 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$299.00

Dozen Price:

$3588.00

Vintage: Product: InchDairnie Distillery RyeLaw Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 94 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$199.99

Dozen Price:

$2399.88

Vintage: Product: Butterscotch & Vanilla & Toast & Generations 30 Year Old Blended Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$129.99

Dozen Price:

$1559.88

Vintage: 1987 Product: 1987 Adelphi North British 36 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$430.00

Dozen Price:

$5160.00

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Vintage: 1972 Product: 1972 Adelphi Invergordon 43 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$599.00

Dozen Price:

$7188.00

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Vintage: 1991 Product: 1991 Asta Morris Cambus 24 Year Old Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 93 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$170.00

Dozen Price:

$2040.00

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Vintage: 1996 Product: 1996 Berry Bros & Rudd North British 18 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$220.00

Dozen Price:

$2640.00

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Vintage: 1996 Product: 1996 Berry Bros & Rudd North British 20 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$199.00

Dozen Price:

$2388.00

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Vintage: 2006 Product: 2006 Berry Bros & Rudd Girvan 11 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 94 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$120.00

Dozen Price:

$1440.00

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Vintage: 1988 Product: 1988 Berry Bros & Rudd Invergordon 28 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$199.00

Dozen Price:

$2388.00

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Vintage: 1996 Product: 1992 Berry Brothers & Rudd North British 18 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 88 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$220.00

Dozen Price:

$2640.00

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Vintage: Product: Cadenheads Port Dundas 20 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$160.00

Dozen Price:

$1920.00

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Vintage: 1989 Product: 1989 Cadenheads Small Batch Cameronbridge 29 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$280.00

Dozen Price:

$3360.00

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Vintage: 1987 Product: 1987 Cadenheads Single Cask Caledonian 28 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$320.00

Dozen Price:

$3840.00

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Vintage: 1989 Product: 1989 Cadenheads Original Collection Strathclyde 31 Year Old Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$280.00

Dozen Price:

$3360.00

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Vintage: 1989 Product: 1989 Cadenheads Small Batch North British Distillery 24 Year Old Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$169.00

Dozen Price:

$2028.00

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Vintage: 1972 Product: 1972 Cadenheads Small Batch Invergordon 43 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$299.00

Dozen Price:

$3588.00

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Vintage: Product: Cadenheads Small Batch Strathclyde 25 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$240.00

Dozen Price:

$2880.00

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Vintage: Product: Cadenheads Individual Cask 19 Year Old Cameronbridge Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$150.00

Dozen Price:

$1800.00

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Vintage: 1988 Product: 1988 Cadenheads Small Batch Port Dundas 27 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$230.00

Dozen Price:

$2760.00

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Vintage: 1985 Product: 1985 Cadenheads Small Batch North British Distillery 32 Year Old Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$280.00

Dozen Price:

$3360.00

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Vintage: 1976 Product: 1975 Cambus 40 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) - Special Release 2016 Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$1,299.00

Dozen Price:

$15588.00

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Vintage: Product: Cameron Brig Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$59.99

Dozen Price:

$719.88

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Vintage: Product: Cameronbridge 26 Year Old (Special Release 2022) Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$599.00

Dozen Price:

$7188.00

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Vintage: 1995 Product: 1995 Carn Mor "Celebration of the Cask" North British 22 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$399.00

Dozen Price:

$4788.00

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Vintage: 1991 Product: 1991 Carn Mor "Celebration of the Cask" Cambus 28 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 90 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$299.00

Dozen Price:

$3588.00

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Vintage: 1970 Product: 1970 Carsebridge (Special Release 2018) 48 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$1,399.00

Dozen Price:

$16788.00

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Vintage: 1992 Product: 1992 Claxton's Warehouse No.1 Cameronbridge 31 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 97 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$250.00

Dozen Price:

$3000.00

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Vintage: 1990 Product: 1990 Claxton's Warehouse No.8 Invergordon 33 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 95 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$250.00

Dozen Price:

$3000.00

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Vintage: 1988 Product: 1988 Claxton's Warehouse No.8 Strathmill 35 Year Old Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 95 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$499.00

Dozen Price:

$5988.00

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Vintage: Product: Claxton's Grain Barn 30 Year Old Single Grain Scotch Whisky Mini (25ml) Rating 94 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$14.99

Dozen Price:

$179.88

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Vintage: 1989 Product: 1989 Claxton's Warehouse No.1 North British 32 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$250.00

Dozen Price:

$3000.00

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Vintage: 2006 Product: 2006 Claxton's Warehouse No.8 Cameronbridge 16 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$199.99

Dozen Price:

$2399.88

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Vintage: 2000 Product: 2000 Claxton's Warehouse No.1 Dumbarton 21 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 92 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$169.99

Dozen Price:

$2039.88

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Vintage: Product: 2006 Claxton's Warehouse No.8 Cameronbridge 15 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 90 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$150.00

Dozen Price:

$1800.00

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Vintage: 1970 Product: 1970 Claxton's Dalswinton Series North of Scotland 50 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$899.00

Dozen Price:

$10788.00

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Vintage: 2006 Product: 2006 Claxton's Warehouse No.1 Port Dundas 15 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 90 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$125.00

Dozen Price:

$1500.00

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Vintage: Product: 1991 Claxton's Warehouse No.1 Girvan 30 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 95 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$250.00

Dozen Price:

$3000.00

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Vintage: 2000 Product: 2000 Claxton's Exploration Series Port Dundas 20 Year Old Single Cask Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 95 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$130.00

Dozen Price:

$1560.00

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Vintage: 2006 Product: 2006 Cooper's Choice Girvan 16 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$180.00

Dozen Price:

$2160.00

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Vintage: 1993 Product: 1993 Cooper's Choice Strathclyde 28 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$280.00

Dozen Price:

$3360.00

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Vintage: 1992 Product: 1992 Cooper's Choice Cameronbridge 29 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 92 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$199.99

Dozen Price:

$2399.88

Out of stock
Vintage: 1992 Product: 1992 Cooper's Choice North British 29 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating 91 Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$185.00

Dozen Price:

$2220.00

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Vintage: 1987 Product: 1987 Cooper's Choice Invergordon 33 Year Old Cask Strength Single Grain Scotch Whisky (700ml) Rating Min. Order: 1 Bottle Price:

$320.00

Dozen Price:

$3840.00

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Single grain whiskies - more than just a background canvas for blends.

We love a good single grain whisky, but they're an unusual sight even on the shelves of passionate whisky retailers like ourselves. In Scotland the style can be produced from almost any type of grain, with the resulting whisky mostly used to stretch out blends. Not surprisingly, single grains are much maligned by malt snobs. Yet this underdog category is has its place. For whisky nerds or completionists, extra matured bottlings are well worth tasting. 30 or even 50 year old expressions can be surprisingly affordable. Older examples from Cameronbridge, Cambus and Girvan are all worth seeking out.

Making Single Grain Whisky.

Today there are seven grain distilleries operating in Scotland. They're large, functional, industrial style buildings with little of the colourful history and romance that attracts throngs of tourists to the charming Single Malt distilleries. The creation of single grain whiskies is broadly similar to that of malt whisky, only the raw materials and the equipment are different. The mash from which grain whisky is made uses unmalted cereals - usually wheat or maize, it doesn't matter which, so distilleries can buy at the best price - together with a small amount of 'green' malt (barley which has germinated but not been kilned). Usually about 16% of malt is added: it has to be there to convert the starches in the other cereals into sugar, so it can be turned into alcohol by the yeast. Tall column stills are used in place of copper pot stills, the former resulting in a light, clean and fruity spirit that works as a catalyst when blended, releasing the flavours of the malts.

Add first-fill Bourbon casks to the mix, and you have an elegant, semi-sweet whisky which can develop layers of flavour and sophistication as it ages. Nikka's Coffey grain is a great young example. At 30 or 40 years, these whiskies can deliver a unique experience bordering on hedonism: Complex and shifting bouquets matched by luxurious textures and sumptuous flavours falling somewhere between the finest gold Rums or Bourbons or the very, very best Irish. For almost any wood-aged spirit category (bar Armagnac) the price / age ratios are frequently astonishing.

Buy Single Grain Scotch Whisky Online.

While a wide selection is not readily available, Nicks Wine Merchants endeavour to stock at least a few examples of Single Grain Whisky which you can buy online and have delivered to most of Australia.