DALMORE 1926 50 YEAR OLD
DISTILLERY ACTIVE
£13,000
Auction: 5 December 2018 at 18:00 GMT
Description
in ceramic decanter, bottled at cask strength, with stopper and velvet presentation case
Dimensions
No volume stated
Footnote
Note: Dalmore was founded in 1839 by Alexander Matheson, a partner in Jardine Matheson the trading organisation which acquired the East India Company. It takes its name from the Gaelic for 'The Big Field', Dail (Scottish Gaelic - field) mór (Scottish Gaelic - big). In the 19th and early 20th century, many distilleries were destroyed or badly damaged through fire breaking out. Dalmore suffered a more dramatic fate. In 1917 the British Royal Navy was using the Cromarty Firth as a site for the production of deep-sea mines and in 1920 much the distillery was almost completely destroyed by fire as a result of a mine detonation. The distillery returned to production in 1922.
It is rare to find a whisky from the 1920s of such age bottled at cask strength. Given that Dalmore has a reputation for maturing exceptionally well resulting in both balance and layers of complexity, we hope that there is much to discover in this whisky.