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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.
