Critics always say, that Dalmore has a low abv and that is why it fails. I am not one of those critics since i have long loved Dalmore since the day i first tasted it. Having said that, this expression is the one critics have been waiting: a Distillery release Cask Strength. Bottled at 57.7%abv, Dalmore 1263 The Custodian Millenium Release is a 12yo Cask Strength bottling, distilled in the year 2000 with that same amount of bottles ever made. Matured in part in matusalem sherry, i believe this is going to be good. It was only available to Dalmore Custodians, a group you can be a part of. On the nose, oh my god what is marvelous aroma!!! Coffee, cocoa, nutella, waffer. It is like coffee with milk. Toffee. Cherry syrup, prunes, dates and candied fruits. It is the most powerful, dark and lovely aroma ever in the world. On the palate, it was out of this world. Chocolate, hazelnut, Nutella;  crazy winey. Dates, raisins and dulce de leche, but everything super powerfully delivered. Amazing. Aftertaste was CRAZY. Acid prunes,  Grassy; wine and.... VINEGAR? OLIVE OIL, olives. It has this Martini feeling, it is very strange and interesting. Super weird. Fantastic. Well, let me tell you this: i shared this dram in a tasting event with 15 other people. 8 of them gave it the title of Whisky of the night, the other 7 hated it. They all recognized it as the best nose ever in whisky, but the vinegar aftertaste was the part not everyone liked. For me, it was proper for an amazing and interesting dram; it offered me something completely different and inappreciate that. The olives and vinegar were fantastic in my books, but i can see how this can be a love-or-hate dram as any Laphroaig when you taste it for the first time. My score for it is not 100. It is 102, if that is even possible. Slàinte!