Dallas Dhu

Independent Bottlings

Gordon & MacPhail


Posted 20 November 2018

There’s a world of difference between a gut feeling and a knee-jerk assumption. You might believe that of the whiskies you’ve tried to date you have a preference for unpeated styles – but that’s far from stating that somehow you are predisposed to dislike all peated whiskies. Similarly I don’t believe that even once a whisky is in a glass, that it’s some form of monolithic substance – unchanging, inert and always the same no matter the time, the place or the imbiber. There’s a world of variables at play that can all affect how we judge (whether it be gut or knee-jerk) liquid – least of all, there’s oxygenation.


Posted 20 July 2018

Whisky from closed distilleries has always been desirable to enthusiasts – it’s a rare, sometimes hard to find and finite resource that captures a liquid moment in time. This is even more so the case today – lost distillery bottlings which cost several hundred pounds five years ago now trade for several thousand. Little has changed over that period of time except the increasing appeal of Scotch whisky and the cultish mind-set of collections (and growth of unscrupulous investors). But, whilst all distilleries, including closed ones have their own sense of uniqueness, and some of the lost distilleries have gained something of legendary status (Port Ellen, Brora and Rosebank etc) there are good reasons why many sites closed over the years – and in some cases its simply because the whisky they were producing was not very good.


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