There is a new whisky festival coming for 2019 – The Highland Whisky Festival, which will be held from May 12-20, 2019 – and showcase distilleries along Scotland’s North Coast 500 route. Distilleries taking part in the inaugural Highland Whisky Festival are: Balblair, Clynelish, Glenmorangie, Old Pulteney, The Dalmore, The Singleton of Glen Ord, Tomatin […]
WhiskyCritic recently had the occasion [St. Patrick’s Day] and opportunity to imbibe a sampling of Dalmore 12-Year-Old single malt Scotch whisky and the experience should be the template for any whisky newbie who is giving single malt Scotch whisky their first post-college try. The popular choice for the day was, of course, Jameson or Bushmills […]
Dalmore Distillery’s Constellation Collection – four single malt whiskies from the 1960s – will go on sale in Vancouver, British Columbia, this week. The four whiskies are one bottle each of Vintage 1966 [of which only 237 were bottled], Vintage 1969, 42-Year-Old [233 bottled], Vintage 1969, 43-Year-Old [88 bottled] and Vintage 1964 [67 bottled]. The […]
It had been a while since I savored a glass of Dalmore 12, so when I went to meet a friend of mine for a quick catch up in a bar I hadn’t been in before and saw it in the drinks list, priced at only $4 a glass, I couldn’t resist. My promise to […]
The Scottish highlands are known for a variety of things; their rugged hills and mountains including Ben Nevis, the highest in the UK, fantastic nature and well preserved wildlife, the all-but-sparse flow of naturally crisp and pure water, but perhaps more than any of those it is known for, you guessed it, fantastic whisky. The […]