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

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Dallas Dhu

Description of the whisky

The distillery

Dallas Dhu distillerie
Dallas Dhu Distillery
Forres
Morayshire IV36 2RR
+44 1309 676 548
Owner: Historic Scotland
Creation date 1899

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The distillery as been designed by the architect Charles Doig, who is probably the inventor of the pagoda roofs. The building has been financed by the blender Wright & Greig.
The distillery has been purchased by Benmore Distilleries Ltd. The company joined the D.C.L. (Distillers Company Ltd.) in 1929.
A fire destroyed the still room in 1939 and the distillery remained closed until 1947.
The Dallas Dhu distillery closed definitively in 1988 when it as been transformed in a museum. It belongs to Historic Scotland.
Everything is still in working order. It is one of the most pedagogic distilleries to visit, even if the smell of malt has gone since a while.
The single malt used to enter in the composition of the blend called "Roderick Dhu".

The whisky

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List of the bottles

Description of the distillery

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 Dallas Dhu: Independent bottlings
 

Dallas Dhu
Gordon & McPhail
22 years
Age
 22 years
Alcohol
 40°
Bottler
 Gordon & McPhail
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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.

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Dallas Dhu
1982
Signatory Vintage

Age
 22 years
Alcohol
 43°
Bottler
 Signatory
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Dallas Dhu 1982 Signatory
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.
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Dallas Dhu
1972
Old Malt Cask
Cask 748
Age
 32 years
Alcohol
 50°
Bottler
 Douglas Laing
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Dallas Dhu 1972 Old Malt Cask
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Dalas Dhu Samples

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

Speyside Map

The Speyside area is situated at the North of the Cairngorm mountain and goes to the Moray firth. It is delimited by two rivers: the Findhorn at the West side and the Deveron on the East side.
The area is named after the river Spey. Most of the distilleries take their water in one of its affluents; the Fiddich, the Livet or the Avon.
About sixty distilleries from Speyside are described on this site.

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