Dallas Dhu 22 Year Old

Dallas Dhu 19 Year Old 1979 Gordon & Macphail

Dallas Dhu was originally named Dallasmore, but because their best known blend was called Roderick Dhu (after a character from Sir Walter Scott’s Lady of the Lake), it was rechristened Dallas Dhu, which translates into ‘the black swamp’. Nowadays it is a museum, which I visited in 2010. It was a Sunday morning, which meant I could not buy any...

Score 80/100

Dallas Dhu 26 Year Old 1980 Part des Anges

Part des Anges, of Angel’s Share, is a French bottles that favours closed distilleries for its… err… ‘Closed Distilleries’ series. This Dallas Dhu fits right in. This 1980 cask was bottled without dilution and hence yielded 231 bottles. The nose is somewhat grassy. The typical (?) candlewax plays second fiddle now, next to some lemon grass, sour...

Score 86/100

Dallas Dhu 1980/2007, 26 Years, Part Des Anges

from a purchased sample Nose: Along the lines of the 1981, though perhaps a touch more minerally. Spun cotton candy, sweet glue, and a little more floral. Maybe less complex, though far greater balance and control of the sweetness. Of course, candied and sweet barley, lemon zest, a single quince. Fresh apricots, too, and caster sugar frosting....

Score 87/100

Dallas Dhu 26 Year Old 1981 Dun Bheagan

Dun Bheagan is a label from Ian MacLeod Distillers, who also own Glengoyne and Tamdhu, but also market the following brands: Isle of Skye, Langs, Smokehead and The Six Isles. This Dallas Dhu is a single sherry butt that was put to sleep in 1981, two years before Diageo closed down the distillery for good. The nose is sweet, while the sherry...

Score 83/100