The Dalmore Luminary 2025 Version includes The Uncommon – aged for 52 years in American oak ex-bourbon casks and completed in a mixture of calvados, Colheita port, tawny port, Pedro Ximénez and crimson wine barriques.
The second whisky, The Collectible, is aged for 17 years in American oak and completed in a mixture of seven casks, together with each classic and aged calvados, Matusalem and Apostoles sherry, Bordeaux crimson wine casks and Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
Whisky makers Gregg Glass and Richard Paterson labored with Dobbin, of Foster + Companions, to curate the whiskies whereas Dobbin additionally created the presentation sculpture for The Uncommon, all in partnership with V&A Dundee.
“One uncommon ingredient of this launch for The Dalmore is that we’ve used Classic Calvados casks that Richard had the foresight to put down greater than twenty years in the past, earlier than they have been an official sanctioned cask kind for ending whisky,” stated Glass.
The presentation of The Uncommon was unveiled at a showcase occasion in Venice on 7 Could, and describing the sculpture, Dobbin stated: “It needed to signify the rolling topography of the Scottish Highlands, the engineered precision of the close by bridges, and the stream of the water that leads all the way down to the distillery.
“I wished the sculpture to have nice technicality and integrity as a construction, and for individuals to take a look at it from many alternative angles, to take a more in-depth take a look at the micro compositions inside it and benefit from the particulars.”
The Uncommon is obtainable at public sale by Sotheby’s, closing 16 Could, with all proceeds going to V&A Dundee, Scotland’s Design Museum.
