Dailuaine 15 Year Old 1997 cask 9641 Provenance Douglas Laing

Dailuaine 16 Year Old

Dailuaine is a distillery I've tended to pair with Mortlach in being obscure but underrated. Very little in the way of single malt releases - it seems to be either this 16YO or expensive indie bottles. The nose is quite a sharp note of red berries, paired with quite a distinct smokiness. And this is from Speyside. It becomes sweeter and mellower...

Score 88/100

Dailuaine 16 Year Old

Dailuaine is a Speyside distillery, and a large one at that. The first distillery to ever bear the now ubiquitous pagoda roof, it is capable of pumping out over three million litres yearly, but only a scant amount ever gets sold as single malt, and much of that is bottled independently. The sherry-matured 16 year-old ‘Flora & Fauna’ expression...

Score 88/100

Dailuaine 18 Year Old 1980 Samaroli

I do not have a lot of experience with Dailuaine. This is only my fifth, bottled a very long time ago by the famous Italian bottler Samaroli. I get mostly sweet malt on the nose, grain cookies with some honey, cardamom and vanilla. Hints of green banana. Not very expressive, I must say. On the palate, the banana and vanilla, which return in full...

Score 81/100

Dailuaine 16 Year Old

Pronounced Dale-you-an this distillery was founded in1852 and is Gaelic for “Green Valley”. The bulk of the single malt produced is used in Johnnie Walker blends and other than this 16 yr old official bottling there are only a handful of indie bottlings. The colour is bronze. The nose is malty, sherried fruits, raisins, toffee, Palate is thick...

Score 88/100