hansmootho
Dalmore 14 Year
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
September 10, 2022 (edited April 25, 2023)
It's not often I get to kick off the reviews for a bottle. I have a Cigar Malt that I quite enjoy on the shelf at home amd when I saw this little gem sitting on the counter of my local shop I decided to give it a good home. Shall we see how it drinks? Of course...
Nose is all fruit and honey. Honestly this smells delicious and I hope it is not a tease on the palate.
First sip has a lot going on. The intial notes are honey almond, but there is a quick burn onset. Not harsh, but a bit more than I expected. Then the fruit just explodes. Red berries at first trailing of to touches of raisin on the finish. This almost drinks more like a Port finish than Sherry. The downside here is that once you get through your first sips the fruity tail seems to linger and the honey notes of the first contact seem to get a bit lost.
Overall this is a very nice fruit forward offering. At the price point it is defintely worth a pick up. It may not be earth shattering, but it is a nice age with an excellent finishing touch. Now it seems I need to pick up a Port finish to see how it compares.
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This is a nice tasty sherried treat. Not amazing but enjoyable. Will work the bottle a bit before review
@cascode I think I might know someone with a 12. I will Mooch!
@DrRHCMadden The 12 year old is an excellent place to start. If you don’t like the Dalmore profile there then you won’t like it in any other expression either, but if you do like the 12 then many of their other whiskies will impress you even more. The Cigar Malt, 15 and 18 year olds are all also good buys. Dalmore is a fine big distillate that takes sherry maturation particularly well but be aware that it can show too much sulphur sometimes. I’m partial to Dalmore myself and still buy one now and then whereas I hardly go near Macallan nowadays.
@cascode @hansmootho I’ve always been hesitant to try Dalmore. For the price, it seems like a macallan style of paying for the brand more than the substance. Would the 12 be the place to try and start?
NIce. I'll be looking out for this one.