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South China Morning Post
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
How Scottish whisky brand The Dalmore redefines culture through art and design: its 3rd Luminary Series edition was unveiled at the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture, in partnership with V&A Dundee
There's plenty to say about what it means to be cultured in this day and age – one of the few words in our modern vernacular which invites some debate depending on who you ask. Perhaps what comes to mind is less a description and more a feeling not too far off from the first sip of a cool glass of aged and refined whisky – something which feels fresh and evocative, deeply personal and always thought-provoking. For the previously uninitiated such as myself, entry into the world of whisky came naturally thanks to the cultural touchstone that is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, where Scottish whisky brand The Dalmore unveiled the third edition of its Luminary Series last week in partnership with V&A Dundee – Scotland's very first design museum and the first prestigious Victoria & Albert museum outside London. The Dalmore unveiled the third edition of its Luminary Series in partnership with V&A Dundee. Photo: Handout Advertisement Marking a marriage between whisky-making and taste-making, these releases are available exclusively as limited-edition collectibles and one-off versions made for auction. They are presented as luxurious art pieces co-created by the design luminaries of our time. Previous collaborators include legendary Japanese architect Kengo Kuma , who designed the V&A Dundee, and protégé Maurizio Mucciola, along with Melodie Leung of Zaha Hadid Architects , whose portfolio includes Hong Kong's very own Henderson Building. And in keeping with tradition, The Luminary 2025 Edition, The Rare – both whisky and accompanying sculpture – will also be auctioned at Sotheby's, this time in Hong Kong, on Friday, May 16, with all proceeds going to V&A Dundee. The Dalmore event unveiling the third edition of its Luminary Series. Photo: Handout In these capable hands, it's easy to see how The Dalmore aims to cultivate a more cultured world, one drink at a time. In its over 180 years of making whisky in the Scottish highlands, the brand has sought to challenge the conventions of its craft and bring new meaning to that tricky term. While some may call cultured a state of being, others a state of mind, the curated, complex tastes involved in bringing The Dalmore's latest release to life say something else entirely – to be cultured is less a choice and more a mandate to push the boundaries of what we think to be possible in today's climate, to pursue thoughtfulness in everything we do. Ben Dobbin (right), with Maurizio Mucciola and Melodie Leung, The Dalmore's Luminary Series designers in previous years. Photo: Handout That's precisely what Ben Dobbin, this year's luminary designer, had in mind when conceiving and developing the latest chapter of The Dalmore's ambitious arts and design project. Dobbin built his sculpture using the principles of tensegrity, which essentially boils down to finding structure through tension – a delicate balance which applies to many other disciplines beyond architecture, including human anatomy, art history and now, whisky-making. Ben Dobbin's sculpture is built on the principle of tensegrity. Photo: Handout 'Taste and smell are really rooted in some of your earliest memories,' says Dobbin, who grew up around apples and whisky-infused desserts. Unsurprisingly, both played a huge role in formulating the 52-year-old single malt whisky that is the 2025 Edition of The Rare. It is the oldest of the brand's whiskies currently available for purchase and the oldest so far in the Luminary Series, which houses a blend of tastes and smells made possible only by its time spent maturing in exceptionally rare casks. The aroma of warm spices like vanilla and cinnamon, which have become The Dalmore's signature, opens up to deeper tasting notes of baked brioche, apricots and apples. The strictly limited-edition collectible version of the whisky, aged 17 years but no less refined in its palette, offers a hint at what this singular whisky has to offer for non-auction prices.
Korea Herald
08-05-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
THE DALMORE UNVEILS COLLABORATION WITH FOSTER + PARTNERS' BEN DOBBIN ON THE PRESTIGIOUS LUMINARY SERIES AS 2025 EDITION LAUNCHES IN VENICE
GLASGOW, Scotland, May 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dalmore Single Malt Whisky announce their collaboration with architect Ben Dobbin of renowned practice Foster + Partners for the third chapter of The Dalmore Luminary Series, which shines a light on the worlds of whisky making artistry and architectural design. Curated in partnership with V&A Dundee, Scotland's Design Museum, this Edition is a co-creation between Ben Dobbin, whose projects include Apple Park and the revitalisation of the Transamerica Pyramid, and The Dalmore's renowned Whisky Makers, Gregg Glass and Richard Paterson OBE. The Dalmore Luminary 2025 Edition - The Rare - is an extremely rare Single Malt Whisky Aged 52 Years, held in a specially designed decanter, housed within a bespoke sculpture, designed by Dobbin. This Edition is rooted in creative flow and precision, qualities shared by Dobbin and The Dalmore's makers. Dobbin's extraordinary sculpture sees the whisky appear almost suspended in time, a fine example of tensegrity. Using this approach, Dobbin designed a dynamic, bold and perfectly balanced asymmetric sculpture, made of bronze, featuring dramatic waves and rods. The Dalmore were equally exacting when creating the exceptionally rare whisky, taking inspiration from Dobbin's personal tastes, whilst demonstrating their artistry. The Dalmore Luminary Series No. 3 follows acclaimed collaborations with Kengo Kuma and Maurizio Mucciola, and last year with Melodie Leung of Zaha Hadid Associates. Ben Dobbin, Luminary No.3 and Senior Partner at Foster + Partners said:"Collaborating with The Dalmore has been absolutely fascinating. Technically, it has been a much more precise - yet creative process than I imagined. Spending time at their distillery really shaped my design process and I wanted to bring to life our shared sense of place, materiality, and how our worlds bridge. This has been an authentic, true partnership, which I am immensely proud of." Richard Paterson OBE of The Dalmore adds: "This collaboration perfectly adds to The Luminary Series, demonstrating a totally different dimension of what can be achieved when creative talents from different, yet complementary fields, unite." Gregg Glass of The Dalmore adds:"Meeting Ben was a true meeting of minds. There are actually many similarities between whisky making and architecture, both being a very iterative process, but striving to create something that stands the test of time." The Dalmore Luminary 2025 Edition – The Rare will be offered at auction via Sotheby's Hong Kong, closing 16 th May, with 100% of proceeds donated to V&A Dundee.
Cision Canada
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Cision Canada
THE DALMORE UNVEILS COLLABORATION WITH FOSTER + PARTNERS' BEN DOBBIN ON THE PRESTIGIOUS LUMINARY SERIES AS 2025 EDITION LAUNCHES IN VENICE
GLASGOW, Scotland, May 8, 2025 /CNW/ -- The Dalmore Single Malt Whisky announce their collaboration with architect Ben Dobbin of renowned practice Foster + Partners for the third chapter of The Dalmore Luminary Series, which shines a light on the worlds of whisky making artistry and architectural design. Curated in partnership with V&A Dundee, Scotland's Design Museum, this Edition is a co-creation between Ben Dobbin, whose projects include Apple Park and the revitalisation of the Transamerica Pyramid, and The Dalmore's renowned Whisky Makers, Gregg Glass and Richard Paterson OBE. The Dalmore Luminary 2025 Edition - The Rare - is an extremely rare Single Malt Whisky Aged 52 Years, held in a specially designed decanter, housed within a bespoke sculpture, designed by Dobbin. This Edition is rooted in creative flow and precision, qualities shared by Dobbin and The Dalmore's makers. Dobbin's extraordinary sculpture sees the whisky appear almost suspended in time, a fine example of tensegrity. Using this approach, Dobbin designed a dynamic, bold and perfectly balanced asymmetric sculpture, made of bronze, featuring dramatic waves and rods. The Dalmore were equally exacting when creating the exceptionally rare whisky, taking inspiration from Dobbin's personal tastes, whilst demonstrating their artistry. The Dalmore Luminary Series No. 3 follows acclaimed collaborations with Kengo Kuma and Maurizio Mucciola, and last year with Melodie Leung of Zaha Hadid Associates. Ben Dobbin, Luminary No.3 and Senior Partner at Foster + Partners said:"Collaborating with The Dalmore has been absolutely fascinating. Technically, it has been a much more precise - yet creative process than I imagined. Spending time at their distillery really shaped my design process and I wanted to bring to life our shared sense of place, materiality, and how our worlds bridge. This has been an authentic, true partnership, which I am immensely proud of." Richard Paterson OBE of The Dalmore adds: "This collaboration perfectly adds to The Luminary Series, demonstrating a totally different dimension of what can be achieved when creative talents from different, yet complementary fields, unite." Gregg Glass of The Dalmore adds:"Meeting Ben was a true meeting of minds. There are actually many similarities between whisky making and architecture, both being a very iterative process, but striving to create something that stands the test of time." The Dalmore Luminary 2025 Edition – The Rare will be offered at auction via Sotheby's Hong Kong, closing 16 th May, with 100% of proceeds donated to V&A Dundee.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
You Don't Need The Dalmore's New 52-Year-Old Scotch. Drink This New 17-Year Instead
Scottish whisky maker The Dalmore's new 52-year-old single malt has competition, and it's coming from inside the distillery. For the 2025 Luminary Series, The Dalmore is releasing two calvados-finished single malts, and one is affordable and delicious. First, a word on the unaffordable collector's liquid: Dalmore Luminary 2025 Edition 'The Rare' is a 52-year-old single malt whisky finished in a number of incredible casks: 80s calvados, 40s port, 40-year-old Pedro Ximénez sherry, and tawny port and Châteauneuf-du-Pape wine casks. That's what's inside the decanter. As for the outside, the Dalmore Luminary 'The Rare' is presented in what could loosely be called a showpiece—an architectural work of bronze waves and rods that resembles an art deco serving tray extruded through a Dalí painting. If this sounds more like an art installation than a whisky, your instincts aren't failing you. Luminary is a release in partnership with V&A Dundee—Scotland's design museum—and artist Ben Dobbin, who designed the asymmetric sculpture. This art bottle is meant to bring home big bucks. The Dalmore is among Scotland's most prestigious names, particularly within the world of heavily sherried malts. Its bottles in these extreme age ranges have gone for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's not necessarily the case that the 2025 Luminary will hit that range when it's auctioned off, but even conservative prices for bottles like this tend to register $50,000 or makes the whisky more likely to bring in huge cash (aside from the charitable context) is that this whisky is one of a kind—well, two of a kind. The Dalmore only created two of these decanters. One is currently in Hong Kong, where an auction will be held by Sotheby's Hong Kong, closing May 16. That auction will determine the worth of the first bottle, but the second will continue to remain nominally 'priceless' because it exists only to be stashed away like Indiana Jones' Ark of the Covenant, interred in Dalmore's archives, being examined by 'top men' and probably never seeing the light of day until another charitable occasion calls for it to be offered why should the average person care? Well, normally we shouldn't if we're trying to avoid FOMO, but with the Luminary series, The Dalmore has created a secondary tier. Dalmore Luminary No. 3 is a 17-year-old single malt 'inspired' by the 2025 Edition of Luminary. While the 52-year-old takes the spotlight in Hong Kong, the 17-year whisky is actually debuting this week in Venice at the Venice Biennale. Luminary No. 3 is a more affordable price point—the liquid is younger, and there are 20,000 bottles of it for the world market—but the price is an approachable $400. The whisky follows a similar aging trajectory, resting in a total of seven cask types, including Calvados, red wine, and sherry. As muddy as you might expect a seven-casked whisky to be on the palate, this whisky really surprises. On the nose, big juicy berry notes jump out. On the palate, honey cake, sticky toffee, and currant linger. It's somehow a text book example of The Dalmore's rich sherry-finished style (mouth coating, lush, syrupy) while being very much unlike any Dalmore I've tried in recent years (restrained on the chocolate and coffee notes and particularly fruit forward). Flavors less common to The Dalmore range—orange candy, black cherry, pie filling— are really pronounced, like broad splashes of bold primary colors over a caramel is, I'm sorry to tell you, illuminated with unexpected flavors, and there's an art-gallery-like joy in just sitting with it for a few moments. I'm very much of the opinion that some whiskeys can be 'over thought,' and distillers the world over will reluctantly admit that not every liquid they sell is meant for poetic tasting notes. But I wish I'd gotten to enjoy more time (and ounces) with this release before it was gone. It's a pleasing and engaging drinking experience that I can't recommend enough for lovers of 'serious whisky.' And if that's what Luminary No. 3 did to my brain, I can only imagine what the 52-year–old liquid would do.
