Dailuaine 14 Year Old Duthies Cadenheads

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

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 28 Year Old 1983 Archives

This is probably the hardest from the Archives range for me, since it is the First Dailuaine I will write a tasting note for. The only other Dailuaine I tasted was the cask strength Gordon & Macphail shop exclusive I tasted when visiting Elgin in September 2010. I did not make any notes at that time. So this is my first real encounter with...

Score 87/100

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