Thanks to /u/whisky_lads[+13] for the sample.

Rare is it that I find a distillery that I’ve never had. The reason isn’t because I’ve had so many: More so the reason is because I’ve had so many of the ones that have OB or aren’t owned by Diageo/Pernod that are used for blends.

Well, blends and the odd IB that pops up to say hello.

Rarer still have I never heard of them. So when I realized that I both owned a sample of Dailuaine 15 1997 Single Cask (Master of Malt) and also really didn’t know anything about Dailuaine,

Spelled with one or two Ls just to throw the debtors off the trail, this distillery dates back to 1852. Eventually it teemed up with some distillery called Talisker on some such Island. I don’t know, haven’t heard of them. Hope they start doing well for themselves.

Both distilleries are…