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An official Dalwhinnie from the distillery, at 48%. Soft orchard fruit and a creamy heather honey. Scotland’s coldest distillery, often cut off by snow in winter. Owned by Diageo, it sits in the classic range with Talisker and Oban. For decades its staff logged the weather for the Met Office. This is Scotland’s highest distillery in single malt form.
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An official release of Dalwhinnie, at 48%, 7500 bottles in all. Dalwhinnie is a light, honeyed Highland malt shaped by its worm tubs and the coldest air in Britain. Cook and Bernheimer, then America's largest distillers, bought it at auction in 1905.
It was made on soft hill water and condensed in worm tubs, the worm tubs lending an underlying waxy weight. Ex-Bourbon casks held it, the gentle American oak letting the honey lead. Without an age statement, vanillin sweetness and a gentle apple point to good years in oak. The worm tubs leave a waxy weight that carries through the years in cask. For decades its staff doubled as Met Office weather observers, logging some of the coldest readings in Britain. Long ageing turns the fresh fruit towards honey, dried fruit and a soft spice. The light, floral make takes cask flavour gently while keeping its honey.
At 48%, undiluted, it is deep and waxy. Apple, pear and a gentle honey, with a soft vanilla from the oak. A dried fruit and a soft oak give it depth. A smooth, honeyed finish ends on pear and a warming spice. This is Dalwhinnie's soft, heather honey Highland style.
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