Dallas Dhu 23y/o 1983 Historic Scotland 46%ABV 15ml / 30ml

Dallas Dhu is a key component of the Roderick Dhu blended Scotch, Dallas Dhu is a rarely seen single malt. As with much of the DCL (now Diageo) portfolio, the distillery was deemed surplus to requirements during the market downturn of the 1980s, and closed in 1983. It is now run as a distillery museum by Historic Environment Scotland. Very few official bottlings exist, and it is incredibly sought after when rare independent bottlings appear.

Aceo current owner of the independent bottler Murray McDavid and major cask broker behind many supermarket own brand whiskies are planning to restart whisky production at the dead distilleries Dallas Dhu and Coleburn in the next 9 months. Dallas Dhu is already a popular whisky museum and in partnership with Heritage Scotland it will be a working museum. Aceo have been working on this for years and it will be interesting to see if the plans continue to proceed given whisky sales are falling and many distilleries are cutting production. Port Ellen, Brora and Rosebank have been resurrected recently - the prices for whiskies from 'dead distilleries' are sky high as collectors pay a premium for liquid history that is finite - but will Port Ellens and Broras still be $5000 when they release new whisky again?