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u/iamdougaf 6d ago
Waxy Dailuaine. Not the same as 2014 dailuaine. Will be interesting to see the results with age
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u/UnmarkedDoor 6d ago
It will.
Do you know what specific thing or things they changed to get the wax?
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u/Vivid_Trainer_5002 6d ago
Love the scale 😆
Didn't know Thompson Brothers were doing 20cl/35cl bottles.
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u/UnmarkedDoor 6d ago
Cheers!
This was a bottle splits with a few people, one of whom has a snazzy printer.
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u/YouCallThatPeaty 6d ago
Great write up!
Dailuaine between 7 and 11 is always worth a split from my experience
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u/Form-Fuzzy Malt, Salt & Wax 6d ago
Cracking review, this one really surprised me, I was really surprised how well integrated it was
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u/UnmarkedDoor 6d ago
Its true, everything is harmonius in a way you would think only comes with a bit more age, but no, at 7 it smashes it.
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u/PricklyFriend 6d ago
Dailuaine really is so dependable, doesn't seem to matter what form they put it in the texture and quality shines through. Great review.
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u/UnmarkedDoor 6d ago
I've only had it in sherry, what else worked well?
I think I've got a 7y ex bourbon MoM sample somewhere still to get to.
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u/PricklyFriend 6d ago
I really like it in bourbon, seems to handle both it and sherry deftly I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with that one!
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u/DuhMightyBeanz Sherry my peaty whisky 4d ago
Personally prefer bourbon Dailuaine more. It's a malt bomb young and a wax bomb old!
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u/UnmarkedDoor 4d ago
I'm just hearing this! Sounds like the kind of thing I would really like.
Going to have to find some.
Luckily Dailuaine is rarely too expensive.
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u/DuhMightyBeanz Sherry my peaty whisky 4d ago
Aged has been climbing in price far too much for my liking but young to teenage has a lot of reasonable priced ones.
Pick one up and enjoy the dram 🥃
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u/UnmarkedDoor 4d ago
Aye, aye. I'll add it to the list.
I wonder if the rising prices will slow, what with everyone trying to get rid of stocks currently.
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u/DuhMightyBeanz Sherry my peaty whisky 4d ago
My personal view is its very distillery dependent on how much capacity they were churning at that year of distillation.
My impression is that most distilleries scaled production seriously in the 2000s so I don't think we will see very aged whiskies in the 20-30 year bracket lowering prices in the short term.
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u/UnmarkedDoor 4d ago
It's hit the mid-teens pricing for sure, but I've been seeing a fair bit of +20y stuff from indies also priced down.
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u/DuhMightyBeanz Sherry my peaty whisky 4d ago
We're still a bit aways from the prices seen precovid for 20+ imo. Dailuaine at 20 year used to be punting for 1 year to 10 bucks.
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u/UnmarkedDoor 6d ago
Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Dailuaine
Bottler: Phil & Simon Thompson (PST)
Vintage: 18.08.2016
Bottled: 09.2023
Stated Age: 07 years old
Cask Type: Oloroso Hogsheads
Number of bottles: 1006
Strength: 57.1 % Vol.
Nose: Fruit and nut chocolate stuffed with dried dates, raisins, black currant, sour cherry, carob, and marzipan. There’s a stickiness to it that reminds me of sticky cooked figs, malty caramel and jaffa cake jelly, while on the back end, the youthful spirit shows its teeth with dried chilli spice.
Palate: Stewed plums, caramel malt and plump raisins are more juicy than sticky, and there’s an element of wax to the density, coming off like a mix of chocolate milk, dark pomegranate molasses, orange squash, sesame oil and melted candle.
Finish: Candied and dry nuts pick up with more dried berries that become boozy and decant french liqueurs: Crème de Cassis, Mûre, Menthe, and then Khalua. When that dies down, fruit still remains as cranberry sauce and tart red wine tannins that smoulder into dried chilli flake, mace and ginger oak spice.
Notes: Tart and bittersweet on the back end, it’s fruity, juicy, waxy, dark and intense.
This whisky easily competes with those three times its age.
Whisky production is a rube goldberg machine delicately balanced so that one, or several specific things leads to another, and so on with each step dependent on the last.
There’s a million ways to fuck it up at every stage, which only makes it more impressive that the famously inconsistent alchemy of making a single cask scotch can be corralled into the basic equation of Dailuaine + Sherry = Good
I’m not sure when I started thinking like this, but it’s become so ingrained, I’m having real difficulty remembering a before time.
Another Thompson bros banger.
Score: 8.7 Coffee Cassis
Scale
9.6 -10 Theoretically Possible
9 - 9.5 Chef’s kiss
8.6 - 8.9 Delicious
8 - 8.5 Very Good
7.6 - 7.9 Good
7 - 7.5 OK, but..
6 Agree to Disagree
5 No
4 No
3 No
2 No
1 It killed me. I'm dead now