True Breath Of The Hebrides
Description
PROFILE |
Peated |
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CASK TYPE | 1st-fill ex-bourbon hogshead |
AGE |
11 Years Old |
ABV | 60% |
DISTILLED DATE |
07/03/2012 |
OUTTURN | 1 of 284 bottles |
REGION | Islay |
SPIRIT NOTES
The nose combined sweet peat, smoked haddock, yum-yums, acacia honey and vanilla with a slightly grubby note (beach bonfires, tarry driftwood and Z-boats approaching an oil rig). The palate was everywhere – peat smoke, cinnamon swirls and maple pecan pastries; mature cheddar and onion chutney on burnt toast; then finishing with liquorice, menthol and roofing tar. The reduced nose was an Islay clifftop – sea breezes, machair (grass, wild flowers) and fishing boats down below; lemon squeezed over scallops and pear. The palate now – a scallop burger with pinot grigio – was sweet, oceanic and tingly, with a dry finish: a true breath of the Hebrides.