Dailuaine 1962 24 Year Old Samaroli

Dailuaine 17 Year Old 1997 Signatory Vintage for The Bonding Dram

Dailuaine is one of those whiskies that you do not come accross every day. Only 2% is bottled as single malt, while the rest disappears in the blends from Diago, who owns the distillery. The online shop The Bonding Dram found a cask in the Signatory, Pitlochry, warehouses. Signatory has already bottled quite a few casks in the 71XX-series, but...

Score 87/100

Dailuaine 1998/2015 AD. Rattray

My last review for the year 2015, so why not a whisky that was bottled this year? My first entry for Dailuaine comes from the independent bottler AD. Rattray. --- Description: a 16yo bourbon matured whisky from 1998, finished in sherry hogshead #1525, bottled at 55.2% ABV by AD. Rattray in 2015. Nose: sweet, soft and honeyed at first glance: apple...

Score 85/100

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 21 Year Old 1992 The Whisky Mercenary

Jürgen Vromans, better known as the Whisky Mercenary, recently brought two new bottlings to the market. The first was the wonderful Clynelish 1997 for Beproefd.be and now this Dailuaine 1992. It will go on sale in November 2013. I believe it will be 95 EUR. The first thing that stands out on the fruity nose is the enormous amount of varnish. I...

Score 87/100