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Flavour Profile:

Peated
Age:

20 years
Region:

Islay
Cask:

Second-fill Spanish oak Oloroso hogshead
ABV:

57.3%
VOL:

700mL

Notes

About Please accept our apologies…: Possibly the most impressive Tasting Panel review we’ve seen on a cask from this distillery, do not miss 3.353. The marriage of this tropically-fueled smokiness with a moderately active Oloroso cask is a divinely happy one….like honeymoon phase to the nth degree!

Tasting Panel Note: The Panel felt that this was, frankly speaking, a ridiculous nose. It was shamefully riddled with exotic fruits wrapped in serrano ham, smoked pink sea salt, and salt and balsamic vinegar crisps, with wafts of pure blue peat smoke interweaving everything. Almost embarrassing in its downright gorgeousness. With water it developed stunning complexity, evoking bone-dry aged Loire chenin blanc, peppery waxiness, smoked exotic fruit teas, salt and chilli squid, lime juice and seawater, and crystallised tropical fruits. We felt it had become utterly disgraceful by this point. The palate was immediately, unapologetically and boisterously tropical, salty, camphory, peaty and coastal. We found nori, soy sauce, young calvados distillate, smoked teas, iodine and a stunningly resinous and thick texture. Heads were in hands by now! Reduction only served to enhance this outrageously oily and tropical palate, as into the mix we noted pristine salinity, tar extracts, pickling juices, papaya, brined olives and guava jam. The finish and aftertaste had to be redacted for reasons of common decency. This was matured in a bourbon hogshead for 17 years before being transferred to a second fill Spanish oak oloroso hogshead.
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USA allocation: 90 bottles