Tasting Notes by Brand: Dunville’s

Rating 9/ 10
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Dunville’s 21 Year Oloroso & PX 53.8% for Friend at Hands

Nose: Stick of faded juicy fruit chewing gum. Peach tea. Allspice, which is a ridiculous pain in the ass to grind. I don’t think most people know how big those suckers are. I actually had no idea they were a dried pepper tree fruit until I moved to Spain where they call them Jamaican pepper. As it sits and breathes, a bit of red fruit goodness surfaces.

Palate: Oh. What a pairing. I have a secret soft spot from my time living in the middle east for the smell of flavored tobacco. Sitting in the roadside stands in 45c heat, sipping sweet mint tea and playing backgammon while people took turns sharing a pipe of fruit flavored tobacco just carries the flair of youthful adventure. Strawberry fruit leather. Dark chocolate. Mexican ancho or guajillo chillies, something with an earthy flair. Cabinet spices and pink peppercorn.

Rating: 9 / 10 – the palate is so balanced and rich. Just keeps giving. This is one of the best pours I’ve had year to date. Freaking hat trick.

Rating 7/ 10
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Dunville’s 19 Year Cask Sample Armagnac Grand Mole #17 (21.10.2022)

Nose: Plum butter, buttery: lemon cookies, shortbread with powdered sugar, unripe white peach

Palate: Lemon sour grass, elderflower syrup, clover, endives, grapefruit peel, sour mountain strawberries, cedar, a fun gin n tonic sour, with a fizz on the mouthfeel.

Rating: 7 / 10 – fruity and delightful. While I love sour, I worry others might find it too much. Tom Says all good and not to overthink it. He gave it a thumbs up. A little more body and this could be a solid 8. We both agree to let it run the summer and they try it again to see if it’s ready to bottle. This is nearly 20 years at time of sample in 2022. AHAHAHA it’s May 2026 and I am posting this note online and I haven’t bottled it yet. Hopefully this summer when I visit in person.

Rating 7/ 10
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Dunville’s 2000 20 Year Oloroso Sherry Cask #162 54% for Belfast Whisky Week 2022

Nose: Redvines, dried prunes, ginger bread, peppermint

Palate: Halls strawberry cough drop, dried cherry, port reduction on cherry ice cream, a big ol mouthfeel

Rating: 7 / 10 – such a huge palate. Super fruity and intense.

Rating 7/ 10
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Dunville’s PX10 Discontinued 46%

Nose: Little Debbies oatmeal creme pie / vanilla It’s It oatmeal ice cream sandwich. Ripe juicy red plum and cassis. Kir royal vibes. Ripe fruit, which sounds amazing except I hate biting into them. Freaking ruins my clothes. I’m on the firm fruit band wagon. Keep your mushy bananas and soft peaches in your underwear. Creamy and sweet. Tangerine + strawberries and cream with shredded mint.

Palate: Sip 1. Oh yeah. Pour more of the sample. Peach popsicle. Tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Loads of dried citrus peel, takes you on a bitter path. I’ve always been quite partial to a solid wood whallop and this is just right, which means it’s almost overwhelming for Ryan. Xmasmas is coming and for me that means the gingerbread aisle… pfeffernusse for the win. Honey, white pepper and ginger ahoy.

Rating: 7 / 10 – an excellent core line bottle from Echlinville, hunt any remaining down.

Rating 5/ 10
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Dunville’s PX 12 Cask #1327 55%

Nose: Fig newtons, raisin bran, oily, fresh teak patio furniture.

Palate: Spicy, fresh vietnamese cinnamon, mild black tea, strong wood

Rating: 5 / 10 – a solid spice bomb. But will admit it’s less balanced and missing the sweet syrupy side of px I really love from the other 12 years.

Rating 7/ 10
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Dunville’s Palo Cortado Cask #1196 48%

Nose: White peaches, wax cleaner, tangerine, lightly grassy, whiffs of mint, biscotti, malty and fresh bread.

Palate: Nails the nose, with a nice tart note to balance the sweetness. Lemon drop, white tea, candied ginger, pepper and rose petals. A slight butteriness on the lips.

Rating: 7 / 10 – this is beautiful in its simplicity and balance. It doesn’t have crazy depth or flavor profile, but it absolutely shines in what it does here and the pairing between nose and palate. This drinks like a classic Clynelish whisky.