Dailuaine 12 Year Old 1999 Dun Bheagan Ian MacLeod

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 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 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 16 Year Old

Dailuaine is a Speyside distillery, and a large one at that. The first distillery to ever bear the now ubiquitous pagoda roof, it is capable of pumping out over three million litres yearly, but only a scant amount ever gets sold as single malt, and much of that is bottled independently. The sherry-matured 16 year-old ‘Flora & Fauna’ expression...

Score 88/100