Signatory Single Cask Dalmore 28 Year (Cask #1745)

Widely recognized as one of the finest and most premium distillers in Scotland, Dalmore's reputation precedes it. It is incredibly rare to find a bottle of Dalmore at Cask Strength (particularly at a concentrated 45.0% cask strength). It is equally uncommon to experience Dalmore without the influence of Sherry Cask maturation. Here, then, after 28 years in a single Bourbon Barrel is an example that is the pinnacle of scarcity, with only 206 bottles ever produced.

This specific bottling takes you on a journey - indeed an odyssey - of flavors. What would you expect from a 28 year old Dalmore? Evolving from youngish-tasting green malt, it transitions to a garden bouquet of florals, on into a Bourbon-like melding of vanilla custard, oak, leather, and caramel, then shifts slightly into a delicious savory-sweet mix of baking spices, before ending on bittersweet dark chocolate. This evolution is experienced as a perfect, continual gradient, transitioning perfectly smoothly and almost imperceptibly. It isn't until you realize how far you are from where the experience started that you realize just how long and complex the journey was.