Smoke devil marries a delicate sweet thing

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Flavour Profile:

Lightly Peated
Age:

17 years
Region:

Highland Southern
Cask:

Second-fill Spanish oak Oloroso hogshead
ABV:

54.4%
VOL:

700mL

Notes

About Smoke devil marries a delicate sweet thing: Here we have Highland peat and Oloroso sherry combined in a 17-year-old “Beauty and the Beast” type dram that will knock your proverbial socks off. At once pulling you toward lightly chocolatey notions with honey and ginger before pushing you headlong into a smokehouse of fun. A most delicious dichotomy!

Tasting Panel Note: The nose was a marriage between delicate sweetness (chocolate, candy floss and burnt custard tarts) and a more muscular smoke devil (dying bonfire embers and fish smokehouses). Things were similar on the palate as we found chocolate honeycomb bars, parma violets and sugar-coated fennel seeds on the sweet side, but the smoke, soot and ash were somewhat more subdued than expected. The reduced nose conjured tarry driftwood and old Spanish galleons, coal cellars and Chinese roast duck. The palate had blackcurrant and lemongrass, humbugs, aniseed and ginger, smoked trout paté and twigs dipped in tar and honey. Following 14 years in ex-bourbon wood, this was transferred into a second fill Spanish oak oloroso hogshead.

USA allocation: 90 bottles