Dailuaine 1994 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & Macphail

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 11 Year Old 2004 SMWS 41.72

While the Scotch Malt Whisky Society has recently put its range in new livery – with colors referring to taste sensations instead of whisky regions – I will try an older bottling from distillery 41. That is Dailuaine in the heart of Speyside. This is the 72nd cask from this distillery that the SMWS has bottled and it yielded 222 bottles at a...

Score 86/100

Dailuaine 12 Year Old 1994 Authentic Collection

Considering that this is only my 15th Dailuaine after more than 5.000 samples whiskies, that’s saying something about how many times you come across this distillery. Well, only 2% of all their whisky is bottled as single malt, the rest is for the blenders. This is a somewhat older release of a 12 years old, released by Cadenhead in their Authentic...

Score 84/100

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