Cadenhead’s Cask Ends is a series of leftover bottlings. In their Campbeltown store, they have small casks with taps from which you can hand-fill your own bottle. Sometimes in 70cl bottles, sometimes just 20cl if there’s not enough, they finish off casks this way.
This Dallas Dhu 1979 is one of these Cask Ends. The spirit was distilled 8th of June 1979 and filled into a bourbon hoggie. Mark Watt brought it to Spirits in the Sky in Brussels and it turned out to be the kind of dram everyone was talking about.
Dallas Dhu 35 yo 1979 (54,4%, Cadenhead Cask Ends 2014, bourbon hogshead)
Dallas Dhu 35 yo 1979 (54,4%, Cadenhead Cask Ends 2014, bourbon hogshead)Nose: very fruity and aromatic. Lots of fruity notes like yellow plums, apricots, pineapples and papaya. Hints of meadow flowers (buttercups). Frosted cereals and vanilla ice cream. Behind this warm fruitiness there’s also a great waxy layer and soft grassy notes (hay, green tea). Walnut oil.
Mouth: a bit drier, with more green tea, hints of grapefruit and hints of eucalyptus or chlorophyll. Tangerines. Becomes rather herbal and slightly bitter. Some sappy pine wood as well.
Mouth: very long, showing mint, nutmeg, plain oak and green tea.
Have you ever tasted a really great Dallas Dhu? Right. So maybe this is one of the best expressions from this distillery ever to be bottled. It used to be available for € 185 in the store. Now for the frustrating part: the cask is empty… Thanks Danny!
Score: 92/100