Dalwhinnie reviews

The Distillers Edition is a series from Diageo in which they offer up their classic malts with a second maturation on a different type of cask. In the case of Dalwhinnie, which is old Gallic for ‘a…

Dalwhinnie is sometimes referred to as ‘The Gentle Spirit’. Well, it is definitely mentioned on the neck label of the classic 15 years old, but this Distillers Edition is also softened up a little bit…

This Highland malt matured on refill hogsheads.Whoa! As luck would have it, I had tasted their entry level 15 years old this week – which I quite like – but this is a totally different league. Seminola…

There are not that many expressions of Dalwhinnie and yet it is one of Diageo’s bestsellers, top 15 material. It is already the third time that we may welcome it into the Special Releases. In 2012 and…

This bottling is aligned with the House Stark. I guess it has something to do with wolves, since there's a picture of a wolf on the label; apparently it was chosen because the House Stark is in the north…

When I noticed that Dalwhinnie was the malt linked to House Stark – somewhat the heroes of Game of Thrones – I was a bit disappointed, but on the other hand it is one of the coldest distilleries in…

I hope you enjoy a quick story ... it’s kind of relevant I promise. My partners granny owns a bee farm. And it has been a pleasure over the years both seeing and tasting the differences between honeys…

When pouring this, it has a straw/hay color, which leads you to believe the flavor will be much lighter than it is. The nose is one of honey, almond/nougat, and some fruit (pear and apple, with a touch…

Mondays are usually very hectic and, frankly, exhausting - but this was more so thanks to a mid-April ice storm. MID-APRIL. Anyhoo - I need a scotch.The coldest distillery in Scotland, Dalwhinnie also…

The Dalwhinnie Distillers Edition from 2000 was a disappointment, but let me try again with a bottling from 20 years ago. This is the Distillers Edition from 1980, bottled in 1997.Again the nose offers…