Dallas Dhu 1980 31 Year Old Cask #2106 Signatory Cask Strength Collection

Dallas Dhu 19 Year Old 1979 Gordon & Macphail

Dallas Dhu was originally named Dallasmore, but because their best known blend was called Roderick Dhu (after a character from Sir Walter Scott’s Lady of the Lake), it was rechristened Dallas Dhu, which translates into ‘the black swamp’. Nowadays it is a museum, which I visited in 2010. It was a Sunday morning, which meant I could not buy any...

Score 80/100

Dallas Dhu 1981/2008, 26 Years, Part Des Anges

from a purchased sample Nose: Vanilla, cake frosting, sweet flower wax. Oodles of sweet barley. This thing is going to melt teeth. Acidic apple, touches of glue, and sweet lemon zest. Musty peach and tangerine/apricot. Something even of a precocious Barsac. Anise/licorice (barely). Perhaps even some spun sugar. Nuts/almondy. (with water) More...

Score 84/100

Dallas Dhu 27 Year Old 1981 Duncan Taylor Rare Auld

After the fantastic 26 Year Old, I got me a sample of a 27 Year Old from the same Rare Auld series by Duncan Taylor, also distilled in 1981 but matured for an additional year. Ha, the nose is almost identical, although the aromas are presented in a different order (does that make sense?). First I get the furniture polish, then tropical fruit. Kiwi...

Score 89/100

Dallas Dhu 26 Year Old 1981 Duncan Taylor Rare Auld

This Dallas Dhu, from the long gone distillery turned museum in Forres, run by Historic Scotland, was bottled by Duncan Taylor in their Rare Auld series. I believe it to be a sherry cask, unless mistaken. It is sometimes hard to tell with these older casks (unless, of course, it is mentioned on the label, which is not the case here). Very fruity...

Score 89/100