Cask No. 10.271

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

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