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Dailuaine 17 Year Old 1996 Highland Laird

Dailuaine is rather unknown as a single malt as 98% of the production disappears in the parent company Diageo’s blends. More’s the pity as Dailuaine can actually be quite good. The one I try today is brought to the market under the Highland Laird label. Nice anecdote: Dailuaine was the first Scottish distillery to get the typical pagoda roof by...

Score 86/100

Dailuaine 16 Year Old

Dailuaine distillery was established in 1852 and by the end of the 19th century had become one of the largest distilleries in the Highlands. In 1889 it was the very first distillery to be fitted with a pagoda type rook designed by Charles Doig. In 1891, Dailuaine became a part of the Dailuaine-Glenlivet Distillery Ltd that merged with the Talisker...

Score 84/100

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

Dailuaine 18 Year Old 1980 Samaroli

I do not have a lot of experience with Dailuaine. This is only my fifth, bottled a very long time ago by the famous Italian bottler Samaroli. I get mostly sweet malt on the nose, grain cookies with some honey, cardamom and vanilla. Hints of green banana. Not very expressive, I must say. On the palate, the banana and vanilla, which return in full...

Score 81/100