Dalmore 1986-2001 - MacKullicks Choice - Single Cask 3088

One of the Highland’s most famous and prestigious distilleries, Dalmore has for many decades been associated with Master Blender Richard Paterson, one of the whisky industry’s biggest personalities. The distillery has been part of blending giant Whyte & Mackay since 1960 and somehow flourished during that company’s turbulent decades of ownership change and management failure preceding the takeover by Filipino owners Emperador Inc. in 2014.

Dalmore has long been associated with sherried whisky, and the distillery’s spirit is capable of extended ageing, giving Paterson unrivalled long-aged stocks to work with. Consequently, Dalmore has consistently pushed the envelope for luxury single malt whiskies, bottling a 50-year-old single malt whisky in the 1970s and the famous Dalmore 64-year-old Trinitas, the first £100k whisky, in 2010 - both of which included small amounts of whisky distilled in the 19th century.

Mackillop & Co. is a subsidiary of Angus Dundee Distillers, owners of the Glencadam and Tomintoul distilleries. Iain Mackillop & Co. was set up in 1998 and bottles single malt and grain whiskies for their Mackillop’s Choice range, but the company also ran a short-lived series of bottlings for the French export market as Mac Kullick's Choice. 

In contrast to the standard Mackillop's Choice range, the majority of which were cask strength whiskies, the Mac Kullick's Choice series were almost entirely bottled at 43%. Around two dozen Mac Kullick's Choice whiskies were released between 1999-2004, since when the range has been dormant.