60,1°
Distillery : The Dalmore - Highlands
1st Fill Cosecha Wine Cask
Independent Bottling
By Scotch Malt Whisky Society
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2023
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Totally Unpeated
For 40 years now, Pip Hills, through his trading company Scotch Malt Whisky Society, has been having fun putting codes on the bottles he sells. To celebrate this anniversary, La Maison du Whisky has offered to distribute some of the Society's finest bottles via its Artist range. Here we have a Dalmore aged in a cask of a sweet Andalusian wine called Cosecha, made from the Pedro Ximénez grape variety. 237 bottles are on sale, and the label features an artwork by Claire Barclay entitled New View I.
Let's Taste It :
The nose is full of sweet wine with vegetal notes. Grass cut in the morning, still beaded with dew, linden and birch bark, young trees. Stewed red fruits, damsons, muscat grapes, brandied cherries. Sandalwood, cinnamon, blood orange, minty freshness, slightly mineral. On the palate, spicy wood with a touch of vanilla and lots of red fruit, cloves, thyme and rosemary, some cereals, toasted wheat, crispy barley. The finish is long and chocolaty, quite explosive, powerful, liquorice and caramel, grapefruit coulis, braised peel, crushed nuts.
In Short,
It's very well made, very close to excellence. The influence of the wine cask gives it something more frank and vigorous than the previous Dalmore I've tasted. And there's the same subtlety, the same depth. It's a complete success. I'd highly recommend it to fans of the distillery, except that it's completely sold out despite the sky-high price. Incidentally, I'd point out that SMWS bottling 13.105 was apparently already aged in a Cosecha cask, possibly the first part of the cask, and it was sold for more than half the price.
Score : 89
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Bonnie Medicine - Crack Me Open
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