Dallas Dhu 1981 22 Year Old Sherry Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Dallas Dhu 1981/2008, 26 Years, Part Des Anges

from a purchased sample Nose: Vanilla, cake frosting, sweet flower wax. Oodles of sweet barley. This thing is going to melt teeth. Acidic apple, touches of glue, and sweet lemon zest. Musty peach and tangerine/apricot. Something even of a precocious Barsac. Anise/licorice (barely). Perhaps even some spun sugar. Nuts/almondy. (with water) More...

Score 84/100

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

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 1981 Duncan Taylor Rare Auld

This Dallas Dhu, from the long gone distillery turned museum in Forres, run by Historic Scotland, was bottled by Duncan Taylor in their Rare Auld series. I believe it to be a sherry cask, unless mistaken. It is sometimes hard to tell with these older casks (unless, of course, it is mentioned on the label, which is not the case here). Very fruity...

Score 89/100