Dalmore 15-year-old, Highlands, Single Malt Whisky, (40.0%)

Dalmore 15-year-old, Highlands, Single Malt Whisky, (40.0%)

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Dalmore 15-year-old, Highlands, Single Malt Whisky, (40.0%)

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Dalmore 15 years old single malt whisky is better than most of the tourist brochures available in the sense that it literally transports you to an Indian spices market from the first sniff with some soft curry powder and earthy notes. It has definitely something culinary combined with other notes suggesting leather shoes. Smooth and oily on the palate, it offers a mixture of spices like cinnamon, paprika and dark pepper, milk chocolate, toffee and sweet plummy fruit. Very easy and gentle it finishes nicely with some long and soft chocolate notes.
Francis Huicq - London Shop Manager

Dalmore 15 yrs is aged in 100% sherry casks (matusalem, apostoles and amoroso) that convey a pronounced nutty character, with rich fruit cake and candied orange flavours. Complexity levels rise as the fruit recedes and the spice flavours (cloves, cinamon, ginger) arrive on the finish. A charming Highland single malt.

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Dalmore Distillery, Highlands

Dalmore Distillery, Highlands

The Dalmore story began in 1839 with Alexander Matheson, who lived in the Highlands of Northern Scotland. Matheson found the rich peat and pure water sources of the Highlands to be the makings of a perfect Scotch offering. He built a distillery in the area and produced small batches of his Single Highland Malt Scotch until 1886 when the Mackenzie family acquired his operation.

When a member of the Mackenzie family risked his own life to save Scotland’s ruler, King Alexander III, from a charging stag, the grateful king offered a token of his appreciation by bequeathing the stag to the Mackenzie family as a symbol of valour and courage. And more than 130 years later, the stag head still appears on every bottle of The Dalmore.

Today, The Dalmore distillery has ten stone warehouses and eight pot stills, several of which date back to the late 1800s. Much of the distillery burned down during World War I while occupied by the U.S. Navy, but production resumed in 1922. It is now part of the Whyte & Mackay group, who have invested a huge amount in a new distillery, making this one of the top ten biggest malt distilleries in Scotland.

The Dalmore tasting profile is characterised by rich vanilla and caramel notes, derived from aging in bourbon barrels. Finishing is something of a speciality of this distillery, with a Vintage Port Collection alongside their Sherry Cask finishes. Dalmore also has an enviable stock of exceptionally old spirits, with a 51-year-old released in 2020.

(Adapted from the Malt Whisky Yearbook 2024)

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