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Dailuaine Marbled Treasures 21 year old, 54.8%

Price: 500 Issue: Winter 2025 Reviewer: Jonny McCormick Category: Single Malt Scotch

Fully matured in Spanish sherry casks, this Dailuaine is the standout of the 2025 Special Releases. Exquisite aromas of vine fruit, marmalade peel, black cherry jam, walnut shells, espresso, new leather, Red Vines, and dark chocolate mingle with blueberry and charred oak. Luxuriously rich, with raspberry jam, moist gingerbread, dark marmalade, Fig Newton, sultana, and plum-walnut jam, with a long finish of ginger spices. Water reveals even greater depths.