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July 3, 2024
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A Dailuaine Quartet
A really old-school distillery, I’ve engravings from the time of its reconstruction on the finish of the nineteenth century, they’re magnificent. The distillery was known as Dail-Uaine on the time, at the least in keeping with the drawings by the well-known architect Charles C. Doig. It was the primary distillery to sport a pagoda roof to ventilate the kiln.
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Dailuaine 13 yo 2009 (46%, Van Wees, The Final, bourbon hogsheads, casks #313945, 46, 50) 
Color: white wine. Nostril: these typical greasy, paraffiny touches, over ripe apples, and pears. Some sunflower oil, damaged branches, celeriac, and different root greens, and lastly, some barley sirup. Maybe not the shiniest star ever however I like this fattish type, it’s in all probability an ideal filler. Mouth: the foundation greens are again, instantly. Extra celeriac, turnips, additionally radishes, plus some inexperienced apples and a contact of lemon. The paraffin oil stays there too. End: medium, very faintly fizzy, and gingery, however apples and oils have saved management. Some porridge and sourdough too. 46% stays an ideal bottling energy. Feedback: a really textured, oily malt, as we knew it. It’s nice to have it al pure.
SGP:461 – 84 factors. |
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Dailuaine 14 yo 2009/2024 (48.1%, James Eadie, 1st fill Malaga butt end, cask #361937, 369 bottles) 
A 34-month end in Malaga. Let’s dream it was PX seco beneath flor, they make splendid ones in Malaga. Bear in mind, 34 months continues to be a end, however from 36 months and 1 day, I believe you may name it ‘maturation’. Color: pale gold. Nostril: I swear it smells like PX seco from Malaga. I like it, very similar to many PX secos, which I discover immensely superior to the sweeter variations. Damp earth, gentle mustard, inexperienced walnuts, a drop of cider vinegar, tart apple juice, pepper, then the oily facet of Dailuaine. The mixture is ideal. Water isn’t crucial. Mouth: comparable, mustard and walnuts, a little bit of truffle oil (undoubtedly not olive oil), clay, a contact of tobacco, cooked bell pepper, artichokes in oil… End: lengthy, with a stunning bitterness. And a Picasso contact (Malaga, Picasso, obtained it?). Candied lemon within the aftertaste balances all the things. Feedback: for instance it, James Eadie have gotten fairly annoying with their finishes that at all times work so effectively (full disclosure: I’m jesting).
SGP:371 – 87 factors. |
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Dailuaine 10 yo 2013/2023 (59%, Girl of the Glen, Tawny Port end, cask # 302795, 272 bottles) 
Two years in a Port cask, we’re off to hunt for purple fruits… Color: gold. No purple fruits in sight. Nostril: honest sufficient, it’s a bit winey, with some recent wooden, banana, muesli, candy pure wine (Vin Doux Naturel), and cooking jam… All in all, it’s fairly good. With water: Turkish delights, rose liqueur, gewurztraminer, purple pralines tarte… Mouth (neat): the fatty facet is there, in any other case it’s a tad fizzy, with Fanta and 7up, and particularly a Purple Bull notice. The drink that, in keeping with the adverts, makes you do excessive issues, like leaping from an upside-down helicopter. Virtually. With water: strawberry syrup and a little bit of tequila. We’re transferring additional away from malty territories, but it surely’s a number of enjoyable. End: identical, extra black pepper. Strawberries and pepper, a profitable combo. Feedback: very amusing. Frankly, proper now, all of us want amusing and that’s why we’ll add a couple of factors to our rating.
SGP:731 – 82 factors. |
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Dailuaine 11 yo 2011 (59.6%, Glen Fort SMWD, Taiwan, bourbon hogshead, cask #307371, 223 bottles)
It’s completely fascinating to search out on the labels of Scottish whiskies, the cultures of every importing nation. I believe it’s fairly simple to determine a bottling for Taiwan, Hong Kong, or China, for Japan, for France, for Germany… and possibly even for the Vatican. Ha. Bear in mind, twenty or thirty years in the past, everybody put tartans, bagpipes, thistles, Celtic crosses, or varied deer heads. Color: gold. Nostril: oh, peat? It wouldn’t be inconceivable if the hogshead was ex-peated. Other than that, you discover pretty notes of recent flowers, peony, wisteria, and particularly these typical vegetable oils, sunflower, sesame… With water: no, the peat has gone, making approach for vanilla cake, pear cake, recent nougat, and a little bit of hummus (chickpea and sesame). Mouth (neat): excellent, fats, malty, and filled with orange cake and praline. Nevertheless it’s a bit sturdy… With water: pear juice, black nougat, touches of espresso, pink pepper, and black pepper. End: lengthy and extra peppery. A little bit of ginger and an earthy notice on the very finish, and naturally paraffin because it’s Dailuaine. Feedback: a really effective younger Dailuaine, with pretty pepper warming your soul and coronary heart.
SGP:551 – 86 factors. |
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By the way in which, I’ve found that some pals suppose that the upper the ‘SGP’, the higher the whisky. No, by no means, it has nothing to do with it. You possibly can have an ‘8’ for ‘P’, that means very peaty, and a disastrous whisky. Proper, let’s end this with an previous one…
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Dailuaine 40 yo 1983/2023 (54%, Wilson & Morgan, Barrel Choice, refill oloroso butt, cask #701, 297 bottles) 
That is solely half of the butt, the opposite half having been bottled a couple of years in the past. Color: full gold. Nostril: it’s filled with previous rancio, leather-based, tobacco, aged ham, varied fat, white truffle, roasted child artichokes, porcini in oil… Briefly, it’s extraordinarily Italian, which is able to shock nobody. Bakelite, engine oil, very good sulphur notes, completely not a flaw on this context. Barbour grease (which, let’s agree, isn’t very Italian). With water: twelve tons of artichokes and twenty tons of aubergines, all baked to perfection. Mouth (neat): very good, simply the correct quantity of sulphur, simply the correct quantity of pepper, full of nougat, turron and halva, cooked wines, dried figs, orange toffee, pipe tobacco… With water: fairly chic, very trendy, very distinctive, nearly cussed. Honey-roasted aubergines with figs, plus a little bit of ash (from that well-known pipe). End: lengthy, very tertiary, but additionally secondary and even main. Briefly, an previous Dailuaine Matryoshka doll. Go determine… Tobacco, figs, and leather-based. Feedback: pleasant previous Dailuaine. It’s sensible that it has preserved its DNA in spite of everything these years.
SGP:572 – 92 factors. |
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Subsequent time you’ve got some Dailuaine in your glass, you’ll discover, after ending it, how a lot it coats the perimeters with a kind of oily and really aromatic residue. If you wish to reuse the glass instantly, rinse it with glowing water, which is able to take away the fatty molecules a lot better than nonetheless water. Ideally, use glowing water first (undoubtedly keep away from Coca Cola), then discard or drink it, then rinse with nonetheless water. My tuppence.
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