Dalmore 1990-2009 - 19 Year Old - Wemyss Malts

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 almost 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.

William Wemyss founded Wemyss Malts in 2005 after a period working in the wine industry. The company bottles a range of single cask and small batch malt whiskies at 46% or cask strength, and are most famous for their range of blended malts including The Hive, Spice King and Peat Chimney. 

The vast majority of Wemyss products are strongly flavour-themed and, similar to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, the company’s single cask malts are given playful flavour-based names. Wemyss have bottled some outstanding single cask single malts this century, including remarkable casks from Springbank, Caol Ila, Bowmore and Bunnahabhain. The Wemyss company became distillers in their own right in 2014 when they took over and completed the Kingsbarns distillery project.