| #386 Dalmore 15 YO Single Malt Scotch (Speyside) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| This cost is what I found the likely shelf price for a 750ml bottle to be, based on an average of costs throughout the USA. Your price may differ significantly. This is not an advertisement of sale, this bottle is likely empty by now anyway Cost | $8500 |  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bottler | Official Bottling | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The whisky's score as weighed against the cost of a bottle. Adj. Score | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 43% | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tasting # 418: My Christmas Bounty: Part 1 (08-FEB-2010) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | I've had a mixed relationship with Dalmore, but given my love for the  21YO I'm more than willing to put money up for another. The 15 does well enough, but it's a fiddly, fussy sort of Scotch. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st Impression | Love the box and bottle, very classic. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Smell | Mangos, pretzels and caramel covered apples at full strength. With some water (and a lot of toying with the water) I get cantaloupe rind, white wine, cinnamon and a much softer wood note. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Taste | While the nose is better without water the taste is the opposite. At full strength it opens with a sharp caramel, barley and vanilla cream soda flavor. The top is very hard wood and raisins which makes for a very good fade. It really just screams for a few drops, though. With water things get better. The front is very dry oak that becomes pears and cinnamon, very tasty. The top brings back the vanilla cream and much improved wood, although this can easily go soft with even a tiny bit too much water. There's butter and a very light cream in the fade where oak (inching near balsa flavor) goes a touch bitter. I really have to play with this to find the winning level of water. Usually I'm a fan of playing with water levels but this seems so finicky. The ultimate is a low 70 point whisky (the score that stands) but too little or too much water pushes it down into the 60s or worse. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tasting Score | 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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