Dalmore 12 Year Old The Black Isle

Dalmore 12 Year Old

Review based on a bottle opened over a year ago, and about 3/4 full. Drunk straight. Nose: Definitely sweet, cookies and burnt caramel. There is an under-current of red fruits from the sherry input. It's quite nice. I can't remember any whisky ever smelling anything resembling this. Taste: Pretty light, I guess that's what you get for 40% alcohol....

Score 76/100

Dalmore 12 Year Old

Richard Patterson, master distiller of The Dalmore, is all over YouTube advocating whisky and the "art" of how to go about drinking whisky like a gentleman. Yet, he washes the glass with the same whisky and tosses it across the room, right on the floor, and he tests the water temperature with his own dirty fingers-- An ironical man. This...

Score 86/100

Dalmore 12 Year Old

I received the Dalmore King Alexander III for Christmas from my wife and wanted to try the range before I opened a power house whisky. So why not start with the 12 year old expression. Nose has passion fruit, strawberries, cherries, liquorish, notes of faint salmon, small hints of citrus and vanilla, cherry pie, honey, a very sweet nose with no...

Score 83/100

Dalmore 12 Year Old

The Dalmore 12 year old was very contradictory for me. Otherwise so pure and fresh but in the other hand, something that I detest. This is very delicate and smooth, might be the smoothest whisky I've ever tasted. And everything went very well until the first whiffs of marzipan came over and started to follow me everywhere. If the marzipan would've...

Score 75/100