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| Hi, this is one of our (almost) daily tastings. Santé! |
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January 30, 2024 |
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One Dallas Dhu because
we've only got one |
In the series of almost pointless tastings. We never do this, having only one whisky out of the blue, but did you hear that some great 'private' folks were about to restart Dallas Dhu Distillery, after some first rumours in 2015 and 2018? I don't know exactly when and how, and perhaps is it in the pipe already, but I believe it's great news and that is why we'll now taste the only yet-untasted Dallas Dhu we've got in the Library. |
Terrifying photo of a Michael Myers type mannequin
pushing barrels - or doing something else - at the
Dallas Dhu 'museum distillery' (Max K.) |
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Dallas Dhu 28 yo 1975/2004 (45.9%, Signatory Vintage, Silent Stills Collection, for Waldhaus am See St. Moritz, cask #2352, 308 bottles) 
I have just checked, we indeed tasted sister cask #2353 in 2016, and we quite liked it (WF 86). But I would be quite incapable of painting an organoleptic portrait of Dallas Dhu. Maybe Charlie Maclean could? Colour: white wine. Nose: I had forgotten everything, really. This plasticine, these notes of putty, stearin, candle smoke, these pine needles, these various and varied resins, Barbour grease, waxed cloth, brake fluid... And these orange cookies. That's the fun part. Mouth: this resinous side, frankly forgotten, is quite remarkable. One could almost say that pine resin is to Dallas Dhu what beeswax is to Clynelish. Except that beeswax is, after all, much sexier (if one can still use that term). Finish: long, very pretty, more fruity and a bit less resinous, with a lot of marzipan and not at all the sensation of eating a tin of shoe polish. There, I'm really exaggerating. A very nice lemony aspect in the aftertaste. Comments: Dallas Dhu has really become rare, even in conversations among uber-geeks. It would be great if the distillery could make a true comeback!
SGP:462 - 88 points. |
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