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

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Dailuaine

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 Dailuaine: official bottlings
 

Dailuaine
Fauna & Flora
16 years
Age
 16 years
Alcohol percentage
 43%
Bottler
 Official
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The colour is amber red, and sherry tastes, candy, nuts and oranges dominate.
A warm and long malt, balanced by dryer notes of oak and cedar. 

What a pity to notice that 98% of this marvelous malt disappear in Johnnie Walker and other blends... This distillery is rather unknown  by the general public but produces a single malt which competes favourably with those of the famous Macallan distillery. The same sherry hints, but a very long finish. Pure pleasure for long minutes. It is unfortunately not very easy to find....
18/20
A second tasting confirmed the first one. A very great malt.
18/20
The third tasting just confirmed the two first ones. Really an exceptional bottling.
18/20
A rather rich nose, dominated by clear hints of sherry and some tingling's, hiding malted smells with citrus touches. In the palate, a very nice presence and a great complexity, somewhere between sherry, chocolate and malt with remote hints of tangerine, but also some woody influence. A quite long and pleasant finish, recalling malted notes.
18/20
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Dailuaine: independant bottlings

Dailuaine
Berry Bros & Rudd
1974
Age
 31 years
Alcohol percentage
 46%
Bottler
 Berry Bros & Rudd
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Dailuaine Berry Bros 1974
A very smooth smell, nicely fruity, nice floran hints. The mouth is perfectly in the mood of the nose with some discrete and fine woody hints. The taste is rather difficult to describe precisely, sweetness on the foreground and slight superimposed bitterness. Very nice finish, rather long and very smooth. A touch of plum at the end. A very special dram, nicely complex, without any aggressivity but with lots of personality.
18/20
Quite a farmy nose, smells of earth and wet hay with some smoke hints. Discrete plum touches on the background.
In the mouth, pleasant malty and chocolate notes which are quickly completed by a touch of citrus fruit. A nice complexity the nose did not really announce.
The finish is long and pleasant and prolongs the malty and chocolate notes of the mouth in a kind of enhancing process making it a kind of apotheoses by amplifying the sensations.
18/20
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Dailuaine
The Whisky in the Church Bottlings
1998-2008
Age
 10 years
Alcohol percentage
 60,1%
Bottler
 Jean Boyer
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Dailuaine WitC bottling 2008
Quite a fresh nose marked by pleasant fruity hints (peer, green apple) with a touch of smoke and menthol notes and even a touch of chocolate at the end.
A very nice presence in the palate, and all the nose freshness remains here. No hinder due to the high degree of alcohol. The fruit impression remains as well, mixed to a slight chocolate bitterness.
The long finish is very pleasant, and just like the nose an palate, is marked by the fruit and this chocolate touch. Some smoke as well.
18/20
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Dailuaine
Daily Dram Adieu Lina!
1973
Age
 35 years
Alcohol percentage
 47,6%
Bottler
 Bresser & Timmer/ The Nectar
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Dailuaine Adieu Lina!
Very nice nose, fresh and fruity with discrete minty notes, hints of undergrowth, fresh wood juice. This amazing nose is constantly in evolution.
The mouth is really spectacular, with its contrasts between the first mouth impressions, both smooth and acid fruit, like a just ripe kiwi. An explosion of coloured fragrances. Development on ripe fruit than new impressions again. A touch of hazelnut , moka and then back to the original contrasted smoothness.
The finish lingering and fresh and constitutes a nice synthesis of all the mouth impressions.
19/20
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Dailuaine
Provenance
Autumn Distillation 1999
9 years

Age
 9 years
Alcohol percentage
 46%
Bottler
 Douglas Laing
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Dailuaine Provenance
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