Dailuaine 1973 37 Year Old Bottled 2010 Cask #10418 Berry Bros & Rudd

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

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 10 Year Old 2002 Provenance

This week I will try three small bottles from the Provenance series, which were presented to us when we visited the Douglas Laing HQ in Glasgow, about a year ago. Let me start with this Dailuaine (which strangely enough is misspelled as Daluaine on the label). This Speysider can hardly be found as a single malt. This was a distillate from 2003....

Score 85/100

SMWS 41.42 - Seduction in an Austrian coffee house

Nose: A quite sweet and fresh start on vanilla and dried apricot, spiced walnut cake showing nutmeg, cinnamon and some lemon rind but not at all heavy. Some quite floral notes sit behind with delicate rose water. With water the floral aspects heighten into violet and Turkish delight, the early sweetness becoming quite creamy with milk chocolate....

Score 84/100