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This whisky is from their ‘peated’ island single malt range – double distilled using only the best malted barley available, and uniquely peat-smoked at the distillery, a traditional practice only done by a tiny handful of distilleries. The patient, yet purposeful, distillation produces a complex, layered and balanced ‘clearach’ (new-make spirit). The whisky maturation expert, Dr. Swan described the original newmake that trickles off our copper potstills as ‘the best that I have tasted in any distillery at this stage, super fruity.‘
This peated distillate is equally smooth and fruity, but now layered with delicate, complex, peat-smoke notes!
The nose presents medium peat smoke with oakwood bonfire, cigar, dried hay, vanilla bean and white moscatel wine. Floral and fruit notes include dried apricot, lychee, melon, fresh ginger, banana, coconut, sweet peas, roses, and honey. Then juniper and coastal pine forest yield to white chocolate, hazelnut, marzipan, and walnut, finishing with seashore breeze and peat smoke.
The palate is velvety, with big peat, sweet burnt heather, malt extract, hemp rope, and seashore. Tropical fruits are resplendent with pineapple, sultanas, pears, figs, stewed apples leading to heather honey, chocolate orange and Key lime banana pie, followed by cloves, white pepper, liquorice, marzipan, hazelnut, walnut and rum, and raisin toffee. The finish is dry with a hint of salt and lingering smoke.