| Dalwhinnie Single Malt (15 Years)
Highland, Scotland |
Product Notes:
Dalwhinnie Single Malt (15 Years)old gentle, delicate malt from the wild and windswept Highlands. It is subtle, smooth delicately smoky malt with a heathery honey finish.
Color: yellow gold;
Nose: fruity, aromatic;
Body: round and full;
Palate: begins with a light taste, clean and mellow, building to a smooth Highland glow - a balanced medley of malty sweetness, fruit and oak, with distant whiffs of smoke Finish: smooth, silky and heather honey.
Recommendations 'A surprisingly soft whisky with good aromas and a lovely fruity-malty taste from Scotland's highest, most remote distillery.' Roger Voss, Discover Life Now, April 1996 'My own personal choice would be the straw-gold honey-like 16-year-old Dalwhinnie.' Phillippe Boucheron, Gloucestershire Echo, 30 January 1996.
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 About Estate:
Dalwhinnie, the highest distillery in Scotland stands in an area steeped in history. The place name itself means 'meeting place', where cattle drovers and smugglers met on their way to markets in the south. It is often referred to as 'The Gentle Spirit'
The distillery was originally named Strathspey when it was established during the whisky boom of the late 1890s by two men from Kingussie. They chose the site for its access to a supply of clear spring water from Lochan-Doire-Uaine, above the snow line, and abundant peat from the surrounding moors.
The Dalwhinnie Distillery The business was not a great success, however, and in 1905 Dalwhinnie was sold to the largest distilling company in America, Cook & Bernheimer. This gave rise to a great concern within the whisky industry in Scotland, which feared that the Americans might attempt to take over the market. Worries were dispelled by the introduction of prohibition in 1922.
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Food Pairing:
Single malt Scotch: a delight usually refrained from until after dinner. Most popular pairing: the cigar
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About Varietal:
Single malt whisky is a whisky which is distilled at a single distillery, and which is made completely from a single type of malted grain, traditionally barley, (although there are also single malt rye whiskies). Most single malt whiskies are distilled using a pot still. Single malts are produced all over the world, but the best known single malts come from Scotland, Ireland and Japan.
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