ABV: 46 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 5/5
Tasting notes
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Additional information
This whisky was aged in ex-bourbon barrels and then finished in ex-Madeira casks. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.
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ABV: 50 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and peaty. At first there’s a mix of campfire wood smoke and vanilla. Underneath there’s a young, but very clean, distillate with a slight fruitiness within. It’s mainly green apples and/or lemon. When it settles there’s a slight tobacco and leather note arriving together with some darker berries. It has a nice balance without compromising the heavy peat punch. This is a great nose overall, anf especially nice for those who love peated whisky.
Mouth: It starts out with a heavy peat cloud. It’s a mix of medicinal and coastal peat. After a few seconds there’s an umami note in the back together with a fresh lemon sour note. It’s still young and rowdy and the lemon in the back has a slight metallic side to it. There are a hints of leather and fruit but the main focus lies on the peat. The oakiness is present and brings vanilla along. It’s at first a mild feeling and over time it slowly becomes spicy. After a few second it becomes quite nice and powerful.
Finish: The finish dampens the sweet notes and brings the medicinal notes up front together with a peppery spicyness. After a second or two, the darker berries are once again detectable and they create balance to the peatiness. There’s also a cinnamon note swimming around. Leather, brine, vanilla and a hint of honey also floats by. The finish is quite long and a lot of the flavours follow along down the line. The oakiness finally takes over and it’s a decent oakiness. It’s a bit too much and lacks depth. This is a great whisky. It’s young and rowdy but has a lot going for it. It’s well made and gives a nice glimpse into what the distillery can produce.
Additional information
This whisky was aged in a mix of ex-bourbon barrels and ex-Oloroso sherry casks. 70 000 bottles were released. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.
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ABV: 50.9 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
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Additional information
This 18 YO whisky was aged in a ex-bourbon barrel and finished in a toscano cask. It’s a single cask (#012) release. 400 bottles were released for Fèis Ile 2010. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.
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ABV: 46 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and peaty. At first there’s a warm mix of vanilla, oak, honey, unscented lotion and a heavy peatiness. It’s a mix of medicinal notes as well as a warm campfire smoke. Underneath the smoke there’s a mixed fruitiness which is hard to pick apart. Everything seems to be surrounded by a thin floral heathery layer. There’s also sweet minty freshness on top. This is a very good nose. It feels very much like a modern Ardbeg.
Mouth: It starts out with a quite bitter backdrop and a medicinal, very peaty, center. Everything is surrounded by oak and vanilla. After a while dark chocolate, tobacco and a tiny hint of fruits assemble and balances out the peatiness. There’s way less sweetness in taste compared to on the nose. There’s also a slightly damp note which isn’t all that great. The spicyness is slowly increasing in intensity and gives it a nice presence yet it could have used a slightly higher ABV.
Finish: The transition sees the background notes shine with the dark chocolate bitterness and a now slightly darker fruitiness. The oakiness is soon to follow together with vanilla, medicinal peat and nuttiness. It’s walnuts mainly. The damp note is still present unfortunatly. The oakiness is very tangible and the palate quickly dries out. This is a very good whisky. It’s not the best Ardbeg out there but it does its job competently.
Additional information
This whisky was released on Ardbeg Day 2024. It was aged in ex-bourbon barrels and ex-port wine casks. This is a limited Fèis Ile release. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.
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ABV: 48 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 5/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is medicinal peat and dried fruits. A cloud of iodine and brine is sitting on top of dried apricots and raisins with a top note of fresh berries. In the background there’s a vanilla oakiness, dry soil and a nice burning logfire. There’s also a hint of new leather. It becomes fruitier with time in the glass. This is a quite complex and very pleasant nose with a lot to discover.
Mouth: It starts out very low key for about a second before the flavours roll in like a wave. At first, the medicinal iodine leads the way together with a black pepper spicyness. Soon after, there’s a mix of sweet honey and vanilla oakiness, mixed with a bitter tang. The dried fruits are pushed back into the background and it takes a long time for the peatiness to push through. It remains very medicinal throughout.
Finish: The dried fruits pop up in front for less than a second and then seem to move out towards the edges to leave place for the medicinal notes once again. The center is then filled with a mix of the vanilla oak, the bitter note and brine. The oakiness shifts towards a fresher oak the longer the finish goes on and it becomes slightly astringent in the end. The fruitiness follows along all the way to the end. This is just a fantastic whisky through and through.
Additional information
This was originally released for the travel retail, but is now part of the core range. It’s first aged in american ex-bourbon oak barrels, then in small quarter casks and then finished in first and second fill european ex-sherry butts. It’s unchillfiltered.
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ABV: 63.5 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and peaty. At first there’s a savory peatiness in the center surrounded by honey, vanilla and oak. It’s quite approachable even though it has a high ABV. There’s a spicy layer on top with menthol and iodine. The peatiness meets the oakiness in a warm burning campfire somewhere in between. There’s also a herbal side to the whole as well as a dark chocolate. This is not especially complex, but it balances the virgin oak and the peat very well, This is a very good nose which really feels older than its 3 years.
Mouth: It starts out with an ashy outer layer and a chili spicyness. Underneath lies a mix of dark chocolate, savory peat and oak. There are notes of vanilla and honey, but it’s not as sweet as on the nose. There’s a maltiness moving along nicely throughout as well. After a few seconds the oakiness starts to push through, but the high ABV is really helping the other flavours along until it gets too overwhelming. There’s no fruitiness coming through at all. It feels very young at this point which brings it down a notch.
Finish: The spicyness spreads out over the palate and it’s a very powerful transition. When it settles there are notes of black liquorice, dark chocolate and a herbal oakiness. When the power subsides it becomes more bitter in the background and a miniscule grapefruit note shows up far away from the spotlight. There’s a charcoal note in the middle and the peat has now moved out towards the edges. The late finish is all about the virgin oak casks though. This is a very good whisky with a lot more to offer than percieved by the young age. It’s not the easiest whisky to approach, but for those who can take the heat, there’s a lot to offer.
Additional information
This whisky was aged for 3 years in virgin european limousin oak casks. The PPM value is 88. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.
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ABV: 59.4 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
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Additional information
This whisky was distilled in 2014 with a PPM value of 139.6. It was aged in first fill ex-bourbon barrels for 5 years. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.
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ABV: 48 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and peaty. Smoke and ashes from a burnt out campfire, iodine and salt. Behind that there’s a hay note together with some honey and vanilla. There’s a clear oakiness shining through all the way from the start. A fresh peppermint is peeking through from the back together with a thin layer of fruitiness. It’s hard to pick out a specific fruit, but maybe a hint of raspberries and maybe a hint of mango. This is a very good nose with a lot to discover.
Mouth: A wet hay together with burnt out coal makes the peatiness thick and dense. There’s a lemon note piercing through. It’s somewhat spicy and the salt, iodine and the vanilla notes are still in there. It’s very bitter and the oak is spreading out in the background. The honey is in there too and it gets sweeter with time in the glass. The fruitiness is basically nowhere to be found at this point.
Finish: It starts out with a big dip in flavour but soon pick up pace again. The spicyness comes first followed by the heavy bitterness and after that the peat notes follow. The finish is filled with espresso, iodine and wet hay. The oak itself is fairly invisible for a long time. When all other flavours reside a vague honey sweetness reappears together with a hint of fruit and the long sought after oakiness. It’s quite nice in the tail end.
Additional information
This is a travel retail exclusive. It’s aged for around 8 years in first fill american ex-bourbon oak barrels and then finished for about 2 years in virgin european oak casks. It’s unchillfiltered. It’s said that it’s the same whisky as the 1815 Legacy Edition.
ABV: 40 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 2
Impression: 3/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and peaty. Smoke and ashes from a burnt out campfire, iodine, salt and menthol are first to arrive. There’s vanilla, butterscotch and honey behind. It’s a bit underwhelming compared to other Laphroaigs. Far behind there are notes of some red molten fruits. There’s an oakiness that’s detectable within the peat notes and it moves forward with time in the glass. This is a decent but slightly subdued nose.
Mouth: It starts out a bit watery. A lemon note comes through just before the peatiness kicks in. It’s kind of fruity but it doesn’t reveal which specific fruits it is. It’s wet ashes, fresh oak and after a while it becomes very salty. The honey note comes through after a few sips and the spicyness builds up slowly and prickles the tip if the toungue.The vanilla and butterscotch is far behind in the background.
Finish: An uneventful start moves over to lemon and ashes, the menthol note returns and stays all the way down the line. The oak isn’t up front, but brings a little bitterness without it being noticed as a specific flavour. It’s still honey sweet. There’s a metallic note left in the mouth together with the menthol and ashes. This is a decent whisky. It’s a little ambigous and feels like a laphroaig wearing fake glasses with a big rubber nose attached to them.
Additional information
The Select is created from blending different styles of Laphroaig. The main whisky is drawn from american oak casks and then mixed with Quarter Cask, PX Cask, Triple Wood and the 10 YO. Natural color.
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ABV: 43 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 5/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and peaty. At first, there’s a sour lemon note and a gentle smoke coming from a hot, burning campfire. After a few whiffs it changes slighty towards leather and tobacco and the lemons become a big bowl of tropical fruits. There’s ripe mangos, pineapple and peaches accompanied by honey, a hint of menthol and vanilla. It’s very pleasant on the nose.
Mouth: It’s sweet and sour with honey, lemons and fresh tropical fruits. The leather and tobacco notes represent the peat and resides around the edges. The oak is there, but it’s not overpowering or bitter. It shows a little astringency after a few sips.
Finish: A big burst of the tropical fruitiness together with a peppermint spicyness. The peat notes are still present and create a nice backdrop. The tropical fruits stays all the way to the end together with a pleasant oakiness. A ”funky” note shows up somewhere in the middle of the finish. There’s some hazelnuts coming through as a dusty, nutty note at the tail end.
Additional information
This is a part of Bowmore’s travel retail exclusive range that was released in 2017. It’s aged in first fill american ex-bourbon barrels.
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ABV: 50.1 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 2/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sharp and peaty. At first there’s a spiky ethanol layer attacking the nose. It feels slightly acidic while the center part presents a mix between heavy peat notes, sweetness and vanilla cream. The peat is a mix of soot, burning wood and iodine. There is a coastal side to the whole, but it’s pushed out towards the edges. It feels like it’s a bit two-dimensional and lacks a lot of complexity and depth. It’s just a sharp layer with hardly anything behind it. This is a so-and-so nose which is a bit disappointing coming from Ardbeg.
Mouth: It starts out with a peppery overtone and heavy, sooty peat. Underneath there are thin notes of toffee, liquorice, vanilla and some green apples sprinkled within. It’s very mouth forward and it feels quite unbalanced, very young and extremely spirit driven. After a while it becomes slightly dry and astringent. There’s just nothing in the background except for a bitter note, which doesn’t seem to fit in. It’s just quite poorly put together. After a few seconds there’s a miniscule floral note starting to float around on top but it’s too little, too late.
Finish: The peppery spicyness continues over the transition, as well as the peatiness. There are no surprises when the center notes reappear. It’s mainly toffee, vanilla and sweet liquorice. The apple bits are gone and the background fills with a mix of lemon and a metallic note. It’s still dry and astringent and the bitter note is ever so present. The oakiness comes through late and it’s a rather boring fresh sawdust oakiness. This is not a great whisky. It’s shallow and lacks complexity. This is the worst Ardbeg release in a long time.
Additional information
This whisky was made with heavily roasted black malt. There’s no information regarding casks used or aging period. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.
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ABV: 48 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is medicinal peat and dry oak. At first there’s a mineral rich medicinal peatiness in the center with a mix of dry oak and ash on the outside. The oak brings notes of vanilla and honey but it’s not especially sweet overall. Underneath the medicinal peat is a layer of assorted red fruits and bitter chocolate. With time all the different flavour profiles seem to move closer together. It also seems to become more oaky with time in the glass. This is a very interesting nose with a lot of nuances to discover.
Mouth: It starts out with honey and dry oak up front but those are soon overridden by chili flakes, bitter chocolate and a rowdy peat with a lot of complexity within. It’s medicinal iodine with salt, rubber and pipe tobacco within. There’s even an ashy side to it. The bitter chocolate moves back and becomes more of a strong coffee note over time. The fruitiness is found on top and it’s a darker more ripe fruitiness than before.
Finish: The chili spicyness, the coffee and the chocolate notes arrives first but are soon pushed back by the medicinal peat and a very dry and in-your-face oakiness. There’s still a hint of tobacco within and it feels like there’s a nuttiness somewhere within. The fruitiness is once again noticable just around the edges. In the late finish it’s just the oak, the peat and the bitterness left behind, and they stay for a long time. This is a great whisky with a unique character. It’s a very interesting journey throughout.
Additional information
The Lore is aged between 7-21 years in 5 different cask types. Named are 19th century quarter casks, european oak, ex-Bourbon and ex-Oloroso sherry casks. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.
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ABV: 48 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 5/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and medicinal. At first theres’s a rounded sweetness with vanilla, honey and liqueuer-soaked berries in the center with a hefty medicinal and ashy peat on the outside. There’s an oakiness in between and as time passes everything merges and fit together nicely together like a quilt. There are minerals and pipe tobacco as well. The berries are slightly fading with time in the glass but they fortunately never disappear. The oakiness turns into a campfire smoke. This is a great nose with a lot of small nuances as well which is nice to explore.
Mouth: It starts out with a mild sweetness and a hint of bitterness before the full medicinal and mineral peat charges in together with a nice black pepper spicyness. It’s not as sweet as on the nose and the berries are covered in tobacco, high percentage dark chocolate as well as the peatiness. It feels a little less balanced but it delivers a big array of flavours. There’s iodine and ginger which gives it an extra rowdy touch. There’s some almonds hidden within as well.
Finish: The Black pepper spicyness spreads out over the palate before the main flavours return. It once again gives a tobacco vibe with bitter chocolate and iodine. When it starts to settle there are some fresh berries floating around on top while the oakiness emerges from the peat. It stays very peaty throughout and holds up against a slightly dry oakiness. This is a great whisky. It’s rowdy and it’s not easy accessible, yet very interesting to explore.
Additional information
This whisky was aged in a mix of refill ex-sherry casks and refill ex-bourbon casks and then finished in european oak ex-Oloroso sherry casks.
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ABV: 54.9 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 5/5
Tasting notes
Nose: Sweet liquorice, honey, vanilla, toffee and menthol. There’s muted notes of a warm burning campfire nearby. There’s also a big bowl of tropical fruits, lemons, a touch of salt and iodine. It’s a complex and very rich nose.
Mouth: Black pepper, liquorice, assorted tropical fruits with pineapple, mango, lemon and peaches. It’s a very fruity dram. There’s honey and vanilla. The smoke takes a back seat here. A nice fresh oak note hides in the back but comes through when the peppery notes subside.
Finish: The high ABV gives a spicy burst but the focus turns quickly back to the tropical fruits. The peach note really stands out and the oak note comes forward. The seasalt is noticable but comes and goes. The campfire keeps on burning somewhere in the back. Very long and extremely pleasant finish.
Additional information
This expression is a limited release and it’s the last in the line of Tempest batches. It’s been matured in first fill american ex-bourbon barrels for the entire 10 years. It was released in 2015.
ABV: 40 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 3/5
Tasting notes
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Nose: Thin nose, peaty medicinal note, sweetness, brine, citrus, butterscotch. Young and cheap, missing the Bowmore characteristic tropical fruits.
Mouth: Butterscotch, metallic note, burnt hay, bitter oak, spicy. No fruits.
Finish: Bitter oak, citrus fruit, spices linger. Hint of campfire smoke in the end.
Additional information
This expression was released in 2017 and was a replacement for the Bowmore Small Batch. It’s aged in first fill american ex-bourbon barrels.
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ABV: 59.2 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
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Additional information
This whisky was first aged for 5 years in first fill ex-bourbon barrels and then moved into new first fill ex-bourbon barrels. The PPM value is 137. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.
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ABV: 51.5 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is high ABV spicy and sweet. The flavours are muted and it takes some time for them to come through. There’s vanilla and assorted tropical fruits and a small note of salty sea spray. There’s a thin aura of honey, but it never takes over. It’s a very flat array of flavours. There’s basically No peat notes coming through at all. It’s a bit boring.
Mouth: This is a 180 degrees turn from the nosing experience with a massive wall of flavours present. It starts out with a spicy kick and a honey sweetness. It then becomes very salty with tar and leather coming through. The tropical fruitiness is still in there but it sits a small distance away. All flavours get pushed up front and in your face. The oak comes through after a while and it brings a hefty bitterness. This is rowdy and not especially balanced.
Finish: A peppermint schnapps gets chased by bitterness and salt notes. The fruitiness is now a mix of grapefruit and lime. The honey and vanilla botes are nowhere to be found. The peat is not pushing forward but it sort of goes in two different directions; Refined leather and wild medicinal notes. The oak is very bitter and comes with espresso notes. This is Bowmore’s unrefined cousin that bears the same family name.
Additional information
This is the first release in a four part series said to highlight the different characteristics of Bowmore. This is supposed to focus on the salty notes derived from the Atlantic sea’s interaction with whisky matured in their famous No.1 vaults. The cask type used is ex-bourbon barrels.
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ABV: 40 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 6
Impression: 3/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and peaty. At first, the peat with notes of hay and vanilla incense fills the nose. When the first impact resides it reveals a fruity middle layer. It’s ripe raspberries and a sweet and sour lemon freshness. The backdrop consists of a dry earthiness and cold ashes. With time in the glass it grows sweeter and a honey note comes through. This is a nice nose with enough things to find to make it interesting.
Mouth: It starts out very sweet with a full impact of ashy peat. After it settles it brings notes of honey-glazed barbeque meat with the fresh lemon note in the background. The red berry note is not as pronounced as on the nose, but it still in there to find. The background is still earthy and now also slightly medicinal. After a few seconds it starts to lean over towards a vanilla note. It never feels watery or too mild.
Finish: At first there’s just a second or two without anything happening. First to arrive is a bitter note and oak together with a medicinal peatiness. The fruitiness is gone and it’s basically a decent oakiness and the peatiness from here on out. The oak surpasses the peat in the end. This feels somewhat young but it is very much a bang-for-the-buck whisky.
Additional information
The Ileach is a single malt made by an undisclosed islay distillery. It’s bottled by the independent bottler Vintage Malt Whisky Co’s sister company Highlands & Islands Whisky Co. There is a cask strength version available too.
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ABV: 55.3 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 5/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and peaty. At first there’s a layer of honey, vanilla and sweet liquorice. Underneath lies a mix of tropical fruits, lemon and a mild leathery peat. It’s malty and round in the middle and the whole thing comes through as warm and welcoming. There’s a mixed spices note coming through towards the edges as well. With time in the glass the vanilla and honey sweetness grows bigger. This is a great nose which makes a good introduction to the rest of the journey.
Mouth: It starts out with a sweetness up front and the peatiness sitting in the back together with a lemon note. The peat is now a mix of leather and campfire smoke. It’s a lot more powerful and rich compared to the nose but a bit less sweet and a bit more mineraly. There’s a nice and mellow bitter note in the background and a sprinkle of seasalt too, which adds another dimension to the otherwise dessert-like character.
Finish: A big burst of mixed tropical fruits spread across the palate. The spicyness is rather consistant through the transition and so is the peatiness. It still feels very warm and approachable. The campfire smoke side of the peat soon start to take over and mix with the now detectable oakiness and the tropical fruits. This creates an extremely nice and fruity background note with a nice and mellow vanilla oakiness within. This set-up stays for a long and absolutely amazing finish. This is a fantastic whisky through and through.
Additional information
This whisky comes from the first batch of six in the Tempest series. It was aged in first fill ex-bourbon barrels. 12000 bottles were released. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.
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ABV: 49.9 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and peaty. At first there’s a mineral rich peatiness with honey and burnt oak within. On top there’s a menthol layer which mixes with a mild vanilla note. When it settles there are notes of coastal air, with a hint of saltiness, coming through while the oakiness increases in intensity. The and sweet notes move backwards and create a solid background. This is a great nose. It’s a bit unbalanced overall but still makes an impact. It’s quite straight forward though.
Mouth: It starts out with spicy black pepper on top, a sweet peatiness within and a lemon note in the back. After a few seconds it becomes bitter and a coffee note forms in the back. The menthol note becomes pepparmint and the oakiness slowly coats most of the palate. It feels quite savory in the back at this point, yet there’s a dry soil note as well and it works as a contrast. It feels a bit messy and there’s a lot of flavours, but they are all over the place.
Finish: The peppermint spreads out over the palate as the bitter coffee and oak notes continue to fill up the background. The lemon note has disappeared. The peat is now very dry and it comes through as a burning campfire with emphasis on the burnt oak. The sweetness is gone but the coastal notes pop up down the line. The late finish is peat and oak with the lemon sourness returning in the back. This is a great whisky. It’s a bit chaotic and the flavours are moving around which makes it a bit hard to follow along.
Additional information
This whisky was released in 2014. It’s aged in ex-bourbon barrels with heavily roasted cask lids. The release was limited. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.
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