Distileerderij | Talisker |
Bottelaar | Douglas McGibbon |
Serie | Young & Feisty Provenance - Small Batch Bottling |
Gebotteld voor | X |
Gedistilleerd op | Not Specified |
Gebotteld | Spring 2014 |
Land | Schotland |
Streek | Isle of Skye |
Leeftijd | NAS |
Cask Type | Refill Hogsheads |
Vatnummer | DMG 10227 & 10229 |
Alcohol percentage | 46 |
Inhoud | 0,70 |
Conditie | In originele verpakking |
Etiket | Perfect |
Voorraad | 0 |
I believe this is a 9 years old, but I may well be wrong. Maybe it’s even younger, we all know what it means when a whisky’s hiding its age (yup, the opposite of ladies.)
Colour: very white wine.
Nose: it’s pure malt distillate, it’s not exactly whisky. Don’t look for any wood influence, it’s all crystalline, pure, mezcaly spirit. Brine and olives, smoke and seaweed, kippers and oysters. Punto basta.
Mouth: excellent. Age isn’t important when the distillate is characterful (but very few distillates are characterful over there in Scotland, in my humble opinion.) A blend of seawater, lemon juice and liquid smoke.
Finish: long, ashy, smoky, salty, a bit acrid, perhaps. Green olives in the background.
Comments: the official ten is more complex, and probably more consensual (you may pour it to your wine friends, while you cannot quite pour them this baby Talisker, unless you want them to leave ;-). Maybe more demonstration ‘whisky’, but I love it.