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Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s


Highest Price: 2020 £55.00

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Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
LOT ID: 0323-169

Winning Bid
£52.50

End Date: 26 Apr 2023
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
LOT ID: 0922-620

Winning Bid
£50.00

End Date: 30 Nov 2022
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
LOT ID: 0922-820

Winning Bid
£47.50

End Date: 30 Nov 2022
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
LOT ID: 199

Winning Bid
£40.00

End Date: 20 Oct 2021
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
LOT ID: 487

Winning Bid
£55.00

End Date: 04 Nov 2020
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
LOT ID: 864

Winning Bid
£32.50

End Date: 07 Oct 2020
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
LOT ID: 729

Winning Bid
£47.50

End Date: 22 Jul 2020
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
LOT ID: 156

Winning Bid
£30.00

End Date: 30 Oct 2019
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
LOT ID: 596

Winning Bid
£30.00

End Date: 05 Jun 2019
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
LOT ID: 842

Winning Bid
£40.00

End Date: 26 Oct 2018
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
LOT ID: 391

Winning Bid
£32.50

End Date: 03 Oct 2018
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
LOT ID: 419

Winning Bid
£25.00

End Date: 06 Jun 2018
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
LOT ID: 853

Winning Bid
£30.00

End Date: 06 Jun 2018
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
LOT ID: 305

Winning Bid
£37.50

End Date: 02 Mar 2016
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
LOT ID: 981

Winning Bid
£30.00

End Date: 06 Jan 2016
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
LOT ID: 563

Winning Bid
£22.50

End Date: 03 Jun 2015
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
LOT ID: 650

Winning Bid
£22.50

End Date: 03 Dec 2014
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s
LOT ID: 280

Winning Bid
£42.50

End Date: 05 Nov 2014
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Circa 1990
LOT ID: 429

Winning Bid
£25.00

End Date: 02 Jul 2014
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - circa 1990
Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - circa 1990
LOT ID: 480

Winning Bid
£27.50

End Date: 02 Apr 2014

Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - Late 1980s

Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old. Bottled late 1980s. 75cl. 43%.

This 15 year old Dalwhinnie is one of the first batches released for the Classic Malts Of Scotland series in the late 1980s.

Distillery:  Dalwhinnie

Distillery Status:  Working

Bottler: Distillery Bottling

Region: Speyside

Bottling Year: 1980s

Age: 15

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 75cl / 750ml

ABV: 43%

Dalwhinnie distillery was established in 1898 and became part of Diageo forerunner DCL in 1926. The distillery was catapulted to fame in 1987 as the Speyside representative in the Classic Malts range launched by DCL’s descendant United Distillers to highlight whisky’s regional diversity. Dalwhinnie is often incorrectly cited as Scotland’s highest distillery - that honour belongs to Braeval, whose altitude is 9ft higher. 

Unusually for the Classic Malts, the dumpy-bottled Dalwhinnie 15-year-old was already a pre-existing single malt from DCL subsidiary James Buchanan and was absorbed into the Classic Malts with its strength bumped to 43%. After a popular cask strength Centenary Edition 15-year-old from 1998, Dalwhinnie became a regular in Diageo’s Special Releases, with several appearances since 2002. These have fared better than the uninspiring Winter’s Gold and Game of Thrones NAS releases. Independent bottlings of Dalwhinnie whisky are virtually non-existent.

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.