Another cracking dram in Signatory’s Cask Strength series.

This time round they’ve picked out a pair of casks from Dailuaine (pronounced ‘Dall-Yoo-Un’). This Speyside distillery is not often seen as a single malt, at least in official bottlings (bar the occasional Diageo Special Release or Flora & Fauna bottlings). The distillery produces a meaty style of spirit beloved by malt whisky aficionados, achieved through rapid distillation and lengthy fermentation.

This bottling has been drawn from a pair of hogsheads, and was distilled in August 1998, and bottled in April 2019, having aged for over 20 years.

The result is a buttery Speyside dram with a thick body. The whisky serves up notes of hay, flowers, apple, pear, malt, toasted bread and butter, honey, tobacco, burnt oak, pecan, dark chocolate, vanilla and slight cherry.

Bottled at a hefty cask strength of 53.6% ABV and without either chill filtration or colouration, this whisky offers an intense experience.

Only 473 bottles were drawn from these casks.

• Product type
  Single Malt
• Distillery / brand
  Dailuaine
• Country
  Scotland
• Region
  Speyside
• Bottler
  Signatory
• Distillation date
  27th of August 1998
• Bottling date
  23rd of April 2019
• Age
  20 years old
• Non-chillfiltered
  Yes
• Natural colour
  Yes
• SKU
  036908