The Dalmore Release Three New Distillery Select Series Bottlings
The Dalmore Distillery Select Series 2025
The Distillery Select Series Is A Collection of Exceptionally Rare Single Malt Whiskies That Celebrate The Dalmore’s Storied Stocks From Their Famed Highland Home
Highland Single Malt, The Dalmore, is to release three new bottlings of its limited-edition Distillery Select Series this October, exclusively available from their online and global boutiques.
Following the release of the first collection in 2024, the Distillery Select Series offers whisky fans hidden gems from The Dalmore’s storied warehouses. Each whisky is hand-selected for its unique qualities and the rarity of its character. The spirits selected for The Dalmore Distillery Select are always bottled natural colour and non-chill filtered.
Every cask at The Dalmore is special, but those chosen for the Distillery Select Series are specifically taken from small parcels of spirit that demonstrate an interesting dimension of The Dalmore’s signature house style – chocolate, orange, and subtle soft spice. The Dalmore master whisky makers then nurture these casks, assessing by hand until they feel they have reached their full potential, and are ready to be enjoyed.
For the 2025 release, The Dalmore Distillery Select Series again offers three limited-edition bottlings. Reflecting their rarity, scarcity and the truly small nature of the parcels of spirit from which they have been created, each whisky is available in differing quantities.
The Dalmore Distillery Select Series 2025: Cabernet Sauvignon Cask Finish
Cabernet Sauvignon Cask Finish is aged 13 Years and has an ABV of 51.3%. Priced at £350, 1,002 bottles are available of this limited-edition Single Malt, matured in American white oak ex-Bourbon barrels before enjoying a two-year finish in Cabernet Sauvignon barriques from one of the world’s most treasured Médoc wine-growing estates.
Full of charm, this whisky has an enticing aroma of warm citrus fruits, black toffee, sugared almonds, and ginger spice. To taste, expect poached peach with whispers of balsamic, chocolate mocha, and soft liquorice. The finish offers tropical fruits and exotic spices, elevated by classic rich berry fruits, and lingering antique soft wood spice.
The Dalmore Distillery Select Series 2025: Loire Valley Wine Cask Finish
Loire Valley Wine Cask Finish is aged 17 Years and has an ABV of 46.8%. Only 252 bottles are available of this rare Single Malt, priced at £1,000 each. Finished for more than three years in sweet wine barriques sourced from Bouvet Ladubay in France’s stunning Loire Valley, it is enticingly complex.
A charming melody of damson plums, old English marmalade, and Madagascan vanilla offers a welcome aroma, followed by tastes of poaching spices and Demerara sugar, orchard and citrus fruits. To finish, expect Tahitian vanilla, luscious caramel, and soft baking spices.
The Dalmore Distillery Select Series 2025: Colheita Tawny Port Cask Finish
Colheita Tawny Port Cask Finish is aged 28 Years and has an ABV of 48.2%. Just 49 bottles of this exceptionally rare whisky are available, priced at £5,500 each. This expression of The Dalmore began its maturation in American white oak ex-Bourbon barrels, before finishing for four years in Colheita casks from The Dalmore’s long-standing partner, Graham’s Port. The Port casks used are from 1997, a vintage year, and the same year as this whisky was distilled.
A deepened beauty, the aroma offers a spectrum of exotic fruit, and nuances of damson plums. To taste, it is like smooth velvet, with roasted pineapple, and raspberry coulis, with notes of coffee beans, and Seville orange. The finish offers star fruit, liqurice, dark cacao, and rounded allspice.
This exceptional range of rare Single Malt Whiskies from The Dalmore is only available from The Dalmore website for those in UK, and from The Dalmore’s boutiques in Spain, Cambodia and the Philippines.
The general sale of The Dalmore Distillery Select Series for 2025 will commence from Saturday 11th October 2025.
Members of The Dalmore Guild will enjoy an early-access sales window, available two days before general sale. To become a Guild member, simply sign up via The Dalmore website.
The response to the inaugural Distillery Select Series in 2024 was extremely positive, with both whisky collectors and connoisseurs alike purchasing these special whiskies. The first release included a 2009 Vintage Sherry Cask finish, a 2007 Amarone and Port Cask finish, and finally a 24 Year Old with a Vintage Calvados finish. As with this year’s release, their quantities were limited and varied, with just a few bottles available.
Each of the whiskies in The Dalmore Distillery Select Series 2025 are presented at natural colour and are non-chill filtered.
The Dalmore Distillery Select Series 2025: Cabernet Sauvignon Cask Finish:
Aged: 13 Years ABV: 51.3% Price: £350 Quantity: 1,002 bottles
Aroma: Enticing warm citrus fruits, black toffee, sugared almonds, and ginger spice
Taste: Poached peach with whisper of balsamic. Chocolate mocha, and soft liquorice
Finish: Tropical fruits and exotic spices, elevated by classic rich berry fruits, and lingering antique soft wood spice
Maker’s Note: “Charming and full of finesse”
The Dalmore Distillery Select Series 2025: Loire Valley Wine Cask Finish:
Aged: 17 Years ABV: 46.8% Price: £1,000 Quantity: 252 bottles
Aroma: A melody of damson plums, old English marmalade, and Madagascan vanilla
Taste: Poaching spices and Demerara sugar. Orchard and citrus fruits
Finish: Tahitian vanilla, luscious caramel, and soft baking spices
Maker’s Note: “Enticingly complex”
The Dalmore Distillery Select Series 2025: Colheita Tawny Port Cask Finish:
Aged: 28 Years ABV: 48.2% Price: £5,500 Quantity: 49 bottles
Aroma: Exotic nuances of damson plums. A spectrum of exotic fruit
Taste: Like velvet. Roasted pineapple and raspberry coulis, with notes of coffee beans and Seville orange
Finish: Star fruit, liquorice, dark cacoa, and rounded all-spice
Maker’s Note: “A deepened beauty”
About The Dalmore
Founded in 1839 on the shores of the Cromarty Firth in the Scottish Highlands, The Dalmore has been making masterpieces of whisky for over 180 years. The 12-point silver stag which proudly adorns each bottle was bestowed upon the first chieftain of Clan Mackenzie in 1263 by King Alexander III of Scotland. The stag became the whisky’s emblem when descendants of the clan took over the distillery in 1878.
The Dalmore distillery’s collection of idiosyncratic stills creates a New Make spirit of unique character and depth – robust and fruity, particularly well-suited to longer and more complex maturation. This allows The Dalmore’s renowned whisky makers to develop spirit over longer periods, continuing a tradition of visionary whisky-making as they fully express their art using rare casks from some of the world’s finest wineries and bodegas.
