The Dalmore Highland Single Malt has unveiled The Dalmore Decades, a one-of-a-kind selection of whiskies spanning six decades.
From one of the oldest liquids released by The Dalmore to the first Scotch created in the new millennium, the collection celebrates the visionary creators and stories behind each bottle.
Celebrated in the release of three collections, the first unique set of six whiskies, the No.6 Collection (pictured below), will be offered at auction by Sotheby’s in Hong Kong in October 2021. A significant percentage of the sale will be donated to Scotland’s design museum, V&A Dundee. The whisky brand has forged a four-year partnership with the museum to champion creative talent.
The six-bottle collection to be auctioned at Sotheby’s comprises:
The Dalmore Decades 1951 – Royal Heritage: This 60-year-old single malt is matured in twin sherry casks and displays the 12-point royal stag on each bottle;
The Dalmore Decades 1967 – Expertly Composed Spirit: This 53-year-old single malt was laid down in the year the stillhouse was created;
The Dalmore Decades 1979 – Curating Exquisite Casks: This 40-year-old single malt is a tribute to the relationship between González Byass and The Dalmore. The 1979 was matured in a sherry butt, followed by a Graham’s Port Vintage 1952 – one of port’s rarest vintages;
The Dalmore Decades 1980 – Unbroken Chain of Visionaries: The 1980s marked Richard Paterson’s arrival at The Dalmore and his tutelage by the last of the Mackenzie founding family. This whisky takes the traditional maturation of The Dalmore and reverses it;
The Dalmore Decades 1995 – The Creation of an Icon: A celebration of The Dalmore’s minimalist bell-shaped bottle;
The Dalmore Decades 2000 – Into the New Millennium: Workers at The Dalmore were the first in Scotland to run new spirit off the stills in the third millennium.
Travel retail collectibles
Alongside the No.6 Collection, The Dalmore will release 15 one-of-a-kind, collectible Decades sets – the No.5 Collection, containing five masterpiece Decades whiskies (1967, 1979, 1980, 1995, 2000). Each set is presented on a pedestal for display at home and retails at $270,000.
Five sets are available in the travel retail channel: China Duty Free Group (Hainan); Duty Zero by cdf (Hong Kong International Airport); Ever Rich Duty Free (Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport); Lotte Travel Retail Singapore (Singapore Changi Airport); and DFS during the Master of Wine and Spirit showcase in Macau.
Alongside the No.5 Collection, the No.4 Collection of 25 sets, each containing four Decades whiskies (1979, 1980, 1995, 2000), will be made available to purchase at $135,000 each. Four sets will be available in travel retail at China Duty Free Group (Hainan) and Lotte Duty Free (Seoul Incheon International Airport).
“Travel retail is the ideal channel to showcase exceptional masterpieces from The Dalmore in our customers' duty free shops and digital channels, allowing us to recruit millions of luxury consumers into the brand franchise,” said Richard Trimby, Travel Retail Director of The Dalmore brand owner Whyte & Mackay.
