I attended last week an online Daftmill tasting, and these tastings always have a very particular kind of charm: the drams always say a lot about the distillery, the farm, and the careful seasonal rhythm behind the spirit. This tasting was no exception, moving from the clean, bright side of Daftmill’s summer distillates to the richer, more textured winter expressions, with a few cask twists along the way that showed just how much character Francis Cuthbert can coax out of such a restrained setup.
What made the lineup especially interesting was the way each whisky seemed to reflect a different choice point in the Daftmill style: barley variety, cask type, fermentation length, and whether the spirit came from the summer or winter season. Put together, the drams didn’t just taste like a flight of whiskies; they felt like a snapshot of how a farm distillery builds identity one careful bottling at a time.
The lineup was made of six drams, but the first one, a Daftmill 2010 Winter Batch Release, has already been reviewed on More Drams, so it won’t be reviewed again. However, the five other expressions were yet to be reviewed here (and I hadn’t had the chance to taste them before), so you can read my thoughts below.
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