Dallas Dhu 1979 25 Year Old Sherry Cask Ian Macleod Chieftain

Dallas Dhu 1970 / 24 Year Old / Rare Malts

Dallas Dhu is no more. The distillery – which started life als Dallasmore and is best known for the bleds Roderick Dhu and Benmore – closed in 1983 and lost its license to distill in 1992. Today it is a living museum run by Historic Scotland. Official bottlings are few and far between. This 24 Year Old, distilled in my year of birth, appeared in...

Score 85/100

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 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 1965 Vintage G&M Connoisseurs Choice

Good news everyone, Dallas Dhu will resume production after a spending the last 32year in hibernation! I hope I’ve got you all excited, but don't celebrate just yet, we got the exact same news two years ago. Back in 2013, the Scottish government, proprietor of this so called ‘time capsule’ museum, payed for a study to explore the feasibility of...

Score 90/100