Whisky Wednesday Reviews Dalry Milk 16YO Single Grain – Scotch Whisky News
Dalry Milk 16YO Single Grain, 45.4%
Welcome to this rather fun and litigious bottle from the folks over at Master of Malt.
As soon as I saw this go live on their site, it seemed silly not to grab it. Purely for the sake of the label. As you’d imagine, the liquid inside is also pretty tasty stuff.
A single grain from the North British Distillery that is vatted in a 2:1 format of Oloroso sherry to Paolo Cortado sherry casks at a rather prominent 16 years old. Chocolate companies aside, the label itself is a reference to the Gorgie-Dalry area of Edinburgh, which has been home to the sites and smells emitted from the North British Distillery over the last few decades. Sadly, in 2009, the distillery was forced to install an odour control tower to help eliminate the smells of yeast, barley, and all of the other fermented wonders from any distillery.
History aside, I think this style of flavour and the packaging that comes along with it should be one of the ways we help showcase what grain whisky is and what it can be for the consumer. There’s so much talk of the whisky loch of single malt whisky, when in reality, we’re sat on tens of millions of litres of grain whisky. Yes, it’s needed in regards to blended whiskies, but it is also rather tasty on its own.
Putting batches together in flavour profiles like this without having to make something into a liqueur is a brilliant way to show this stuff off to wider consumers. Anyway, this was good fun and a great bargain at £40 a bottle. Well done to Master of Malt and the team who helped select this and get it to the public.
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