Spirits/The Dalmore
The Dalmore Distillery Select 2026
This Dalmore Distillery Select finishes a 14 year old single malt in Semisecco Marsala casks at full cask strength, $470.
The Dalmore Distillery Select 2026 is a 14 year old single malt finished in Semisecco Marsala casks, bottled at 53.7% ABV. There are 1,100 of them, at $470 each.
Work out the price per year and it is $33, against roughly $8.70 for the GlenDronach 14 we wrote about yesterday. The whisky in these two bottles spent the same time in wood. What separates them is cask strength, a Marsala finish, a run of 1,100, and Dalmore's position at the top of the market, which it spent two decades building and now prices accordingly.
The Marsala finish is the genuinely interesting part. Semisecco is the off-dry style, sweeter than a sherry butt and far less common in finishing, and on a distillate as rich as Dalmore's it should push towards dried fruit and marmalade rather than the chocolate note the house is known for. Cask strength means you can take it apart with water and find out.
Whether that is worth $350 more than the GlenDronach is a question about you rather than the whisky. Eleven hundred bottles will sell either way.
| Age | 14 years |
|---|---|
| Finish | Semisecco Marsala casks |
| Strength | 53.7% ABV |
| Bottles | 1,100 |
The verdict
An interesting cask at a scarcity price. If Marsala is the draw, buy it. If the 14 is the draw, buy the GlenDronach.
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Found via published coverage and checked against the maker on 20 September 2026. Source. Price and specification as published at that date. We have not handled this item; when we have, the piece says so at the top.
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