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

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Speyside:

Dallas Dhu

Distillery description Tasting notes

The distillery

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The whisky

List of the bottles

	Dallas-Dhu
			Sample
Douglas Laing	Old Malt Cask, 32 years
Gordon & MacPhail	1980 Gordon & MacPhail	16
Signatory	Signatory Vintage 1982	16 1/2
	Cask Strength Collection 1975

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Dallas Dhu Gordon & MacPhail 22 years
Age	22 years
Alcohol percentage	40%
Bottler	Gordon & MacPhail
Price/litre

The colour is deep gold and the nose is rather complex with floral (honeysuckle), fruity (candied fruits) and slightly peaty hints.
The palate is smooth. Cereals with spicy notes (pepper, nutmeg) fruits (apple) and chocolate.
The finish is both smooth and firm, and is dominated by cereal and flowers.

(la Maison du Whisky)

The nose detects refined cut grass hints The taste is a bit poor. It is not complex enough, and to much marked by cereals. An interesting whisky, however a little disappointing in regard to other malts from the same area. No trace of the taste explosion which characterizes much malts from Speyside. The finish is too short, and memorizes the alcohol rather than the aromas. But it is a very interesting bottling.

A second tasting confirmed the first one. A great contrast between the perfumed nose and the flatter taste. All remarks from the first tasting are still in force.

A floral nose dominated by the malted cereal, followed by a taste in the palate where malt domination remains, with some spicy hints (pepper). The same impressions are present in the finish too. This whisky is nice, but no more.

Dallas Dhu 1982 Signatory Vintage
Age	22 years
Alcohol percentage	43%
Bottler	Signatory
Price/litre

A rather fresh nose, with some discrete hints of malt and some light touches of ... soap (?). In the mouth, pleasant floral notes, heather, mixed to malty notes with some slight touches of citrus fruit. A pleasant finish, mixing malt and floral hints.

At the second tasting, several months later, the nose was quite fresh, with hints of cut grass, mint, violet and ripe fruit, like yellow apple. A nice fruity nose. In the palate, the impression is somewhat different, and presents a lack of clearness, still sweet notes, but rather dry, and the soap impression from the first tasting reappears. The finish is rather short, with slightly bitter hints, miwed with some malty ones.

Dallas Dhu 1972 Old Malt Cask Cask 748
Age	32 years
Alcohol percentage	50%
Bottler	Douglas Laing
Price/litre

Dallas Dhu 1975 Cask Strength collection Cask #2353
Age	29 years
Alcohol percentage	45,5%
Bottler	Signatory

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Copyright:Jean-Marie Putz (2003-2007)

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