ABV: 57.2 %
Origin: Islands
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 5/5

Tasting notes
Nose: This is fruits, mint and peat. At first there’s a warm and sweet peatiness with a minty overlay and a dark red fruity base. Everything feels immidiately balanced and everything fits together. There are ripe plums and raisins which feel like they’re coated with a sweet liqueuer. The peatiness slowly fades over time, and that gives room for the other flavours. The peat comes through as a mildly burnt oakiness with a medicinal backside. There’s a spicyness from the ABV, but it’s not protruding in any way. This is a fantastic nose with both complexity and balance.

Mouth: It starts out with a ripe fruitiness up front and a lemon freshness in the back. The spicyness slowly builds up to a nice level and joins the minty overlay while the peatiness starts to emerge around the outside. It’s slightly astringent and it’s a big and rewarding start. There’s some coffee notes building up in the back as the fruitiness once again becomes liqueuer-soaked dark fruits. There’s a hint of age coming through in the back when a slight oakiness meets the peatiness. It’s almost got a dessert-like quality to it at this point.

Finish: The spicyness doesn’t spike, it just spreads out and leaves room for the fruitiness, which still consists of the dark fruits as well as lemon and coconut. The coffee note is still in there and is now joined by dark chocolate. The sweet minty layer is still coating everything, as do the peatiness. The finish is full of flavour and it’s full of complexity, with tiny things floating by like a speck of dust, a mineral note, raspberries and dry soil. The late finish is a nice hazelnut oakiness with a hint of the coffee note. The age shines through in the late finish as well. This is an absolutely fantastic whisky. It’s extremely balanced and complex and it’s full of flavour.

Additional information
This single cask whisky was distilled in 2008 and aged in a Merlot barriques. The bottle tried is no. 068/263. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.

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