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- Suggested retail price: $225
- Thursday, October 13 (for as long as it lasts), we're pouring one ounce for $7
All Blackadder whiskies are single-barrel bottlings, with no chill-filtering and no color added. Their "Raw Cask" bottlings are bottled at cask strength, passing only through a rough sieve. Most whisky is filtered and most of it is cold stabilized.
Cold stabilization removes many of the natural fats, oils and flavors of whisky which, in turn, removes a great deal of individual character, as the esters, or flavor congeners, in the spirit tend to gather around these fats. The more a whisky is cold stabilized, the greater the proportion of fats and esters that are removed.
Bright filtering also removes a large part of these fats and esters with losses of around two to three percent of the cask volume when bottling. The loss when bottling our Blackadder Raw Cask is normally less than half a percent. Blackadder believes in bottling the full whisky, keeping alive a centuries old tradition. Whisky used to be sold to bars in cask and drawn down or refilled as needed. In fact, each bottle of Raw Cask contains little bits of charred oak from the barrel.
"Dailuaine" derives from the Scottish Gaelic "An dail uaine" meaning "green valley", named most probably for those elegant undulations of the Spey valley in which the Dailuaine distillery was founded in 1852. In 1884, an extensive rebuild commenced, leaving the distillery as one of Scotland"s largest. The original building collapsed in 1917 and was rebuilt.
Single malt bottlings from Dailuaine are few and far between, as most of its production goes to make Johnnie Walker; but there have been few independent bottlings. They can be extraordinary and this is one of those.
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Girvan 40 yr, Duncan Taylor Rare Auld Grain, 1974