Dalmore 1978 Sherry Finesse

Dalmore New Make Spirit

I scored this sample of Dalmore new make at the Spirits in the Sky festival in Belgium in November 2014. Since it is not commercially available, I will keep my notes short – I think. The typical smell of cooked vegetables which I get in almost any new make is present here as well, but a lot less obvious than expected. Loads of malted barley and...

Score 80/100

Dalmore 12 Year Old

Review based on a bottle opened over a year ago, and about 3/4 full. Drunk straight. Nose: Definitely sweet, cookies and burnt caramel. There is an under-current of red fruits from the sherry input. It's quite nice. I can't remember any whisky ever smelling anything resembling this. Taste: Pretty light, I guess that's what you get for 40% alcohol....

Score 76/100

Dalmore Cigar Malt

A whisky that seems to split the whisky community in two: another love or hate dram. The 2012 re-release of the popular Cigar Malt, now called Cigar Malt Reserve got quite a lot of flak from the fans the old whisky. Not sure what the history here is, why did Dalmore withdraw this whisky at the dawn of the NAS Single Malt? Was it simply because of...

Score 85/100

Dalmore 18 Year Old

The Dalmore 18yo is the first "serious" whisky that I've bought. For appreciate this whisky there would patience; this dram has need of time and "love" for reveal the own quality. Unfortunately these quality aren't ample... the good there's undoubtedly but limited almost at an mononuance. It's not rich of flavours... Despite...

Score 89/100