Dailuaine 2011 11 Year Old, Finn Thomson Cask #305063

Sampling this whisky with colleagues after the Ghent Whisky Festival in October 2022, they were all taken aback by a dramatically profound tobacco note which beautifully compliments the inherent nuttiness of the distillery character. Immediately, he wrote down that this cask should be bottled as soon as possible to make sure this unique flavour was captured and preserved.

His elation upon discovering a whisky with so much character was short-lived. He came crashing back down to Earth when they regauged the cask to see how many bottles they should expect from this hogshead. They discovered that the cask had leaked, meaning it would yield less than half the number of bottles they were expecting.

It could well be, however, that the leak was the cause or catalyst of this unusual tobacco flavour. So, while it is a shame that only 99 bottles of this whisky will ever exist, this unfortunate act of nature might just have contributed to creating one of the most distinctive whiskies he has come across.

Distilled: 01/04/2011
Bottled: 01/11/2022
One of only 99 bottles produced from a single cask.
Cask: Hogshead
Bottled exclusively for for the UK