Dailuaine 16 Years Old Flora and Fauna (43%, OB, 2011)
- Category: Speyside single malt scotch whisky
- Origin: Dailuaine Distillery
- Bottling: Diageo; Flora and Fauna range
- ABV: 43% ABV
- Cost £43.99
What they say:
This 16 year old is the official release from the Dailuaine distillery in speyside and has been sherry cask matured.
What I say:
I bought this at the Glenkinchie distillery following recommendation by one of the tour guides as her favourite out of the Flora and Fauna range. Only around 2% of Dailuaine output is thought to remain single malt, the remainder ends up in blends. Potentially [but I don’t know for certain] this is chill-filtered and has caramel colouring added. I also recently heard a rumour that between this, Mortlach [my favourite whisky] and Benrinnes you have in your hands the basic ingredients to blend Johnnie Walker Odyssey. At £600 a bottle for the blend it seems obvious to me it is a lot cheaper to buy the 3 Flora and Fauna offerings and spend a weekend blending them to make your own Odyssey! P.s. if anyone cracks the recipe answers on a postcard to The Whiskyphiles and whatever you do please don’t mention it to your local Diageo representative.
Colour:
Amber orange.
Nose:
Sweet tinned peaches in syrup.
Taste:
Green grass and apple, dry cereal malt, almonds and cooking/cider apples.
Finish:
Salty and smoky, slightly drying oakiness and moreish like a good parmesan cheese.
Would I buy it again:
Yes, yes and thrice yes. Whatever has or hasn’t been done to this – it is still a fantastic whisky, a great example of a sherried speysider. Lets hope it stays at around £40 a bottle, if so I will continue to buy it and drink it.
The Whiskyphiles 
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