The "big easy"

$170

273 Left

Flavour Profile:

Heavily Peated
Age:

11 years
Region:

Highland Island
Cask:

First-fill barrel
ABV:

59.4%
VOL:

700mL

Notes

A thick seafood chowder of smoked salmon, smoked haddock, smoked bacon, smoked langoustines, smoked … you get the message! This was powerful, ashy, peaty, maritime and creamy on the palate. The chowder was prepared in a rusty cauldron but there was also a sweetness of gummy bears drenched in cod liver oil. After reduction a more classic profile emerged as we sat around a beach bonfire made with driftwood and peat slabs sipping a peaty John Collins cocktail and singing a song by Hamish Imlach, ‘Cod liver oil and the orange juice’ – it was banned for a time by the BBC! Following five years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a first fill oloroso hogshead.

USA allocation: 276 bottles