Dailuaine 11 Years Old 2011 Cask #AM 162 (Asta Morris)

This Dailuaine was bottled by the bottler Asta Morris, an 11 year old, distilled in 2011, from cask AM 162, bottled at 52%, one of 320 bottles. Dailuaine, founded in 1852, gave Scotch its first pagoda roofed kiln. It had its own railway siding and a little locomotive, Dailuaine No.1, known as the Puggy.

It was worked through the big stills for a meaty, malty spirit, to build a robust, malty, sherry loving character. An ex-Bourbon barrel shaped it, vanilla beneath the robust, full bodied spirit. In integration lactones (coconut) and vanillin (vanilla) knit with the malt, fruit deepening to dried fruit. Vanillin and oak lactones from the wood lend vanilla and coconut over the meaty malt. The name is Gaelic for the green vale, after the hollow in which the distillery sits. Long ageing turns the fresh fruit towards dried fruit, fig, leather and a warm spice.

At a natural 52% it is full and honeyed. Dried fruit, malt and a rich, savoury depth, with a soft vanilla from the oak. Soft orchard fruit and a rich malt sit behind the cask. The finish is deep, rich and savoury. This is the robust, sherried malt of Carron.