ABV: 45.8 %
Origin: Islands
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 2/5

Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and peaty. At first there’s a slightly wet peatiness and a mild honey sweetness. Underneath there’s a thin peachy fruitiness. There are salty coastal notes on top. It feels slightly spirity and the whole doesn’t pop out of the glass from the start. When it starts to open up ginger and toffee arrives in the center, but it never loses the spirity feel. This is a decent nose which feels unbalanced, young and with the components in disarray.

Mouth: It starts out with the wet peatiness and a mix of tobacco and toasted bread within. There’s a hint of the toffee and fruits, but the mouth goes dry almost immidiatly and the mouthfeel isn’t the greatest. The burnt oakiness is already taking over which is a bad sign for the rest of the journey. It’s salty and the coastal notes are still sitting on top, but the mix of oak spices and the young spirity notes ramps up the oakiness even more when it sets of.

Finish: The oak makes the transisiton very spicy and dry. The other flavours doesn’t seem to be able to push through. There’s an apricot fruitiness floating around on top when it finally starts to calm down. There’s still a saltiness, but the peatiness shifts and becomes more mineraly in the late finish. The toasted oak is just too strong to make everything accessible. This is a so-and-so whisky which feels over-oaked and unbalanced.

Additional information
The Skye was released in 2015. It’s matured in a combination of refill and toasted american oak casks with a slightly higher proportion of toasted casks. It’s unchillfiltered.

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