Dalmore 10 Year Old 2013 SMWS Single Ex Bourbon 1st Fill Oloroso Finished Cask 13.102 Bubbling Brown Sugar Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2024) 70cl

1 of 207 bottles produced

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society was founded in Edinburgh in 1983 by Phillip 'Pip' Hills who, while travelling around Scotland in the 1970s, fell in love with whiskies drawn straight from the cask. After he expanded his syndicate the Society was purchased by Glenmorangie PLC in 2004. In 2015, the Society was sold back to private investors. In June 2021, the private owners floated the holding company The Artisanal Spirits Company plc on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.

It has a unique code system where the first number refers to the distillery and the second refers to the cask from which the bottle comes. SMWS also offers the largest range of distilleries of any independent bottler. These curiously named drams really do have something for every whisky lover!

The SMWS are one of the Britain's most revered independent bottlers with a worldwide network of partner bars with one mission of getting as much whisky at natural cask strength without water to different nations including USA, Canada, Switzerland, UK, Austria, Germany and many others.

TASTING NOTES

The aroma of bubbling brown sugar, baking moist and chewy cookies next to dense and decadent cakes came to mind alongside macadamia nut-infused extra virgin olive oil. On the palate neat, fig carpaccio with pickled chilli, walnuts and honey balsamic created an umami sensation! After reduction we found ourselves in the Big Apple as we baked a Brooklyn blackout cake while enjoying a hot dog New York-style, with pushcart onion relish. Sweet and tangy with a hint of chilli and spice, this was simply delicious and so moreish. Following five years in an ex-bourbon barrel, we transferred this whisky into a first fill Spanish oak oloroso hogshead.

It is rare to see natural cask Dalmore without colouring and from the glorious era of the 1970s. This is it. Rare as anything and delicious. It is not easy to come across ancient releases from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society either. Most people drank 'em.

The SMWS are one of the Britain's most revered independent bottlers with a worldwide network of partner bars with one mission of getting as much whisky at natural cask strength without water to different nations including USA, Canada, Switzerland, UK, Austria, Germany and many others.

These older labels from the first runs are mostly with distillation methods that include direct heat which was replaced with steam for many distilleries for environmental reasons changing the taste of whisky forever. It'll get real interesting when nuclear fusion is used to distil whisky. We might glow green for a few weeks after we drink the stuff. Who knows.... but all we know is that the old stuff has a musky taste that is VERY welcomed by people nowadays trying to time travel through whisky's past.

About Dalmore

59.9% ABV

70cl