Dailuaine 16 Year Old 1st Release Flora & Fauna

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 16 Year Old

Dailuaine 16 year old Flora and Fauna was also part of our Speyside blind tasting. Maybe we should've started the tasting with this one because Dailuaine 16 yrs turned out to be probably the most delicate whisky I've ever tasted. Very difficult to follow, yet smooth and nice. Full of cherry and floral summer feel. That's why Flora and Fauna is...

Score 80/100

Dailuaine 16 Year Old

Pronounced Dale-you-an this distillery was founded in1852 and is Gaelic for “Green Valley”. The bulk of the single malt produced is used in Johnnie Walker blends and other than this 16 yr old official bottling there are only a handful of indie bottlings. The colour is bronze. The nose is malty, sherried fruits, raisins, toffee, Palate is thick...

Score 88/100

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