D&M California Buyers Clubs – Single Malt Aficionados

ABOUT OUR SINGLE MALT SCOTCH CLUBS
Members of our buyers’ club share an enthusiasm for the malt elixir in the most practical way, by saving time and money. No initiation or fees of any sort are charged. We simply ask that you undertake to remain in the club for the period of one year. As a club member you will receive a carefully selected, often unique bottling, complete with background information, shipped directly to your home or office every other month. The Single Malt Aficionados’ Club is dedicated to seeking out and enjoying the rarest and most classic of truly aged malts, has a limit of $119.99 on the cost for the bottle itself. That’s it. No strings just pure enjoyment.
In December of 2009 our members received a bottle of Dalmore 23 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky – D&M Exclusive Bottling. This whisky is brought to us by Lorne MacKillop and was bottled exclusively for the D&M Aficionados’ club members. This 23 year old was distilled in 1986 and came from cask # 3097. Bottled at 57.5% ABV, the whisky is creamy pine colored with thick legs. There’s red fruits and a light hint of mint to the nose. The body is medium and soft. The flavors are herbal and complex, with light malt and a hint of an elusive hard candy. There’s a lot going on in this glass before it arrives at its long, slow and very dry finish.
Dalmore was one of the new distilleries built in the area in the wake of the 1823 Act, which made distilling both viable and legal. Peat and barley were locally grown and coal was used to fire Dalmore’s stills. The distillery acquired sole rights to draw its water from the River Alness which flows from the beautiful Loch of Kildermorie, close to Ben Wyvis. Production began with a single pair of stills and a second pair was added in a separate stillhouse in 1874. The upper part of those 1874 stills has survived and is still in use today. It is unusual in outline, having parallel sides instead of the customary tapering swan-neck. Dalmores’ stills are cooled by running water over the outside of the stillnecks in a way that is similar to the temperature control on fermentation vats in wine making. In 1891 the Mackenzie family took ownership of the distillery their family crest bears the 12 pointer stag which can be found on every distillery bottling. Andrew Mackenzie was the moving force of the Mackenzie brothers and impudently included Speyside in their sales patch for Dalmore whisky. Ownership remained with the Mackenzies until 1960 when it was bought by the Glasgow based Whyte & Mackay Group. During World War 1, £1 million worth of maturing whisky was removed from three distilleries including Dalmore. The distillery was handed back in 1920 and surprisingly every cask was returned unharmed. Dalmore whisky plays a part in all of the Whyte and McKay blends. Dalmore covers 25 acres, much of that space taken up with the warehouses where the spirit matures. There are about 100,000 casks on site. The oldest whisky still mellowing there in wood is a 1939 distillation.
Suggested price for this bottle is $180.00 but our members only paid $109.99
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