ABV: 54.1 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Blended Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 4/5

Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and peaty. At first there’s a very savory, honeyglazed liquid bacon peatiness with an ashy campfire overlay. It’s mineral rich with a young and spirity iodine note. There’s not much complexity to the whole and it’s slightly metallic in the back. This is a very good nose with a straight forward, well executed peat driven character.

Mouth: It starts out by coating the palace with a mixed sweetness. It doesn’t take long before a very spicy and dry peatiness arrives. It’s very ashy and has tobacco, minerals and umami notes within. Honey and a touch of vanilla are present, as well as a dried oak note. It’s young and rowdy and still come through as very straight forward with a focus on the peat effect.

Finish: The ashiness increases throughout the transition and the character becomes slightly different. The peatiness loses many flavours and becomes a bit boring. There’s a bitterness in the back and a weird, slightly unpleasant note somewhere in the middle. In the late finish it’s just a burnt oak dried oak. This is a good whisky which delivers its promise. The peat have interesting sides to it which makes the experience a nice experience.

Additional information
Douglas Laing released Big Peat Christmas Edition for the first time in 2011. This 2017 edition contains whiskies from 7 islay distilleries. Named distilleries are Ardbeg, Bowmore, Caol Ila and Port Ellen. It’s cask strength, has natural colour and it’s unchillfiltered.

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