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Dallas Dhu 1982 - 2007. 24 Year Old. Specially bottled for Historic Scotland. Cask number 3739. 70cl. 56.3%. In presentation box.
A single cask from the closed Dallas Dhu distillery, this 1982 vintage cask Speyside single malt whisky was bottled as a 24-year-old in 2007 by Historic Scotland, who ran Dallas Dhu as a distillery museum after it was closed in 1983, before handing over the reins to Aceo Ltd in 2024 to restore the distillery to operational condition.
Let’s hope that the new regime can produce more epic drams like this full strength beauty, a leathery, spicy old school Speysider bottled from a single sherry cask with an outturn of 590 bottles at an epic 56.3% natural strength.
Speyside distillery Dallas Dhu began production in 1899 and was acquired by Diageo forerunner DCL in 1929. The distillery suffered a serious fire in 1939 but was rebuilt and subsequently made malt whisky for blends from 1947 until its closure by DCL in 1983. Dallas Dhu was sold to Historic Scotland in 1986 and converted into a distillery museum with the equipment still intact; although previous plans to resume whisky production came to nothing, in 2024 it was announced that Aceo Ltd would be restoring the distillery to full use.
No official bottlings of Dallas Dhu’s whisky appeared until the mid-1990s when a handful of superb Rare Malts Editions were released. Historic Scotland subsequently bottled a number of Dallas Dhu malt whiskies, including the last 1983 vintage cask ever filled at the distillery. Independent bottlings of Dallas Dhu single malt are becoming very scarce now; the best previous examples are from G&M, Signatory and Cadenhead’s.
Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.
This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £875.00 | 6th August 2025 | 06:42 PM | |
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