Malt Live 2024 Dubai – Unviels Dailuaine 40 Year Old
In 1992, Wilson & Morgan was founded on one very simple principle: no whisky under the company’s label will be bottled until it meets the taste of the company’s brilliant chairman and owner, Fabio Rossi. This year. the company rolled out the Dailuaine 40-Year-Old at the Malt Live 2024 Dubai.
There are no preconceptions about age statements or color. In fact, the company never added color, even before it was popular to not add color. They have always believed that aroma, taste, and personality are what matter.
Notably, Wilson & Morgan has released some spectacular older whiskies over the past 30 years, including a record-breaking North British bottling at the respectable age of 50 years.
Dailuaine 40-Year-Old – Old Whisky in Dubai
According to Rossi, when they release an old whisky once in a while, it isn’t because they want to cynically target the premium market; it’s not because they want to boast impressive age statements on a malt that has passed its prime.
” It’s because that very specific cask deserved to reach such a venerable age – because it really gave its best only after three or four decades of slow and patient maturation. Old whiskies, with complexity but also with grace. Multifaceted, but still vibrant and fresh in spite of the years.
”One of these extraordinary single malts is our Dailuaine 40YO Fully matured in Sherry Wood W&M484, limited to only 297 engraved decanters with a sterling silver neck collar, housed in a prestigious mahogany presentation box and revealed as a world premiere in the recent Malt Live 2024 event, which was held at the Meydan Hotel in Dubai.”
In 2018, the company bottled half of this cask as a 35YO Special Release (catalog reference W&M273). Five years later, the remaining half reached a new peak, and Rossi decided to bottle it in a royal manner. He added
”It was matured for four decades in an oloroso butt, albeit in a refill one. This explains how it slowly grew and developed its complexity for such a long time. The result is markedly sherried, dry, and nutty, but without oaky excesses.”
