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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Whisky Fail! Dailuaine 10 year old 1999 Prime Malt

Uh, oh......


Distillery: Dailuaine
Ownership: Diageo
Independent Bottler: Gordon Bonding
Range: Prime Malt
Region: Speyside (Central)
Age: minimum 10 years
Distillation year: 1999
Maturation: ex-bourbon casks
Alcohol by Volume: 43%
Chillfiltered? ???
Caramel Colored? Probably not

It appears to be nearly opaque.  It smells and tastes like bitter asparagus piss.  It neither smelled nor tasted like bitter asparagus piss when I enjoyed it three years ago.  But this Dailuaine fell to the same fate, alas more violently, as the Teaninich sample that was (partially) filled on the same day.  Three years in a less than half full sample bottle can completely oxygenate, oxidize, exterminize, eradicize, and annihilize a whisky.  So treat your samples well, people!  Stop making me mutilize my whisky in order to save yours!

Availability - A few bottles remain on random shelves throughout the US
Pricing - Less than $40, usually
Rating - Sample fail!