Dailuaine 10 Years Old 2008 Cask #DMG 12590 (Douglas McGibbon)

This Dailuaine was bottled by the bottler Douglas McGibbon, a 10 year old, distilled in 2008, from cask DMG 12590, bottled at 57.5%, one of 687 bottles. Dailuaine was founded in 1852 by William Mackenzie, and was the first distillery to wear the pagoda roof. The distillery was founded in 1852 by William Mackenzie on the banks of the Spey at Carron.

Distilled in large conical necked stills on Bailliemullich Burn water, for a rich, meaty make that suits sherry wood. A sherry cask wrapped the rich spirit in dried fruit and a nutty depth, a fine match for the heavy malt. In integration lactones (coconut) and vanillin (vanilla) knit with the malt, fruit deepening to dried fruit. Most Dailuaine goes quietly into blends, a robust filler kept in part as single malt. It passed to DCL and Scottish Malt Distillers in the 1920s and was later modernised.

At cask strength 57.5% it is full bodied. Orchard fruit, malt and a warm spice, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Soft orchard fruit and a rich malt sit behind the cask. A full, malty finish ends on dried fruit and a warm spice. This is a rich, malty Speyside single malt.