Dailuaine 15 Year Old 1998 Strictly Limited Carn Mor

Dailuaine 11 Year Old 2004 SMWS 41.72

While the Scotch Malt Whisky Society has recently put its range in new livery – with colors referring to taste sensations instead of whisky regions – I will try an older bottling from distillery 41. That is Dailuaine in the heart of Speyside. This is the 72nd cask from this distillery that the SMWS has bottled and it yielded 222 bottles at a...

Score 86/100

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

SMWS 41.42 - Seduction in an Austrian coffee house

Nose: A quite sweet and fresh start on vanilla and dried apricot, spiced walnut cake showing nutmeg, cinnamon and some lemon rind but not at all heavy. Some quite floral notes sit behind with delicate rose water. With water the floral aspects heighten into violet and Turkish delight, the early sweetness becoming quite creamy with milk chocolate....

Score 84/100