Dailuaine 26yo 1983-2010 53.1% Bladnoch Forum cask#4316
From a refill sherry cask, I've heard much good stuff about the bottlings from Bladnoch Forum, This on shows smell of onions, stale meat, leather and household soap. The taste is extremely dry and very concentrated on leather, sulphur, white pepper, grain, dijon mustard and sun dried tomatoes. Although all good, it's just too dry for me to take neat, I'll add some water. Now it's less dry, but all the good flavours have turned into a hot mix of herbs and chili, really burns the back of my throat.
One to have alongside a bottle of cream, hot stuff: 4
Dailuaine 14yo 59.8% SMWS cask#41.34
Bottled as part of an art project with 26 cask strength scotch single malts and 26 different special labels designed by 26 different artists. Smells strong, spirity, peppery, highland style like clynelish. The taste is waxy, salty, bittersweet like grapefruit and chocolate ice cram. With water this waxiness and hints of dark chocolate becomes stronger. A really nice speysider with big balls. I believe Dailuaine is a malt that's far too rarely bottled as a single.
Nice old style whisky: 8
Dailuaine 12yo 62.4% James MacArthur's cask#6911
J.M. is bottling a lot of single casks without vintage at the usual standard industry bottling age of 12. I wonder what the idea is, as most IB's usually makes a point of stating that what they offer is unique compared to OB's. Floral, vanilla and banana odors. The taste is full of vanilla, but not much more, very strong, needs water. I'll add a good sip. Some of the vanilla notes backs down when water's added, but it gets an enormous peppery flavour. Some hardcore CS-fans will love this, for me, my uvula is now bruised and battered.
Vanilla, pepper, alcohol: 4
Dailuaine 23yo 46% Cadenhead's
Old Dailuaine can be amazing, hopefully this will be. This is a sweet bourbon-matured malt, some vanilla, but most of all it reminds me of moscatel wine. It tastes of honey, vanilla and has a burning and long aftertaste. The aftertaste needed some spice, if not this one would also become a characterless malt. If I should decribe this I'd say it is sort of a wine whisky. reminds me most of all of sweet dry wine.
A nice but also pretty uneventful malt: 3.5
Dailuaine 14yo 1971-1985 40% CC G&M
This Dailuaine is somewhat sweet and spicy at the same time, a kick in the nostrils, not like much else chill-filtered I've come across. But then it changes when it reaches my tastebuds, there's champagne drinks, green chillis, peppermint and sharp blackcurrant candy. The aftertaste is a mixture of cocoa and apricots, not bad.
Childrens booze with a twist: 7.5
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