Cask No. 29.249

Sweet black tea in the surgery

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Flavour Profile:

Heavily Peated
Age:

21 years old
Region:

Islay
Cask:

Second-fill Pedro Ximenez hogshead

Notes

Cask No. 29.249

Sweet black tea in the surgery

Islay

A pleasingly medicinal blast of aromas with carbolic soap and iodine develops into black tea, herbs (rosemary) and green tomato. There’s a winey note emerging too. To taste it’s rich, medicinal, sweet and earthy. Sauna wood, leather, sweet strong black tea, dried mixed fruits, salted black liquorice and charred wood. Add water and it becomes more winey, gentler and sweeter. Aromas are balanced with rich honey, liquorice, plums and then leather, charcoal and samphire. Satisfyingly sweet and smoky to taste – hot smoked salmon with herbs, carbolic and ash – and a wonderful lingering finish. It spent 19 years in a refill ex-bourbon hogshead.

Cask: Second-fill Pedro Ximenez hogshead
Age: 21 years
Date distilled: November 1996
Alcohol: 48.6%
USA allocation: 54 bottles