Tasting Panel Note

About Tapas tour!: This historic distillery on Islay is known for its elegant peat and tropical fruit notes. Here we experience an exotic and entertaining tapas tour through Central Spain! Spanish oak Oloroso cask married with a lightly smoky malt makes for a stunning 20-year-old whisky.

Tasting Panel Note: Wow, what a nose! We found ourselves barbecuing one of those famous cuts of meat called Ibérico presa, the best of the best from free-range Spanish pigs that live on acorns. On the palate, the succulent nuttiness combined with lavender-smoked heather honey, blow-torched mackerel with blini and warm pickled beetroot to send our taste buds heavenwards. With a drop of water we were transported to a Middle Eastern fruit market where we enjoyed a traditional Berber tea made with cinnamon bark, cardamom, dry nutmeg flowers, spearmint and star anise. Following 17 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a second fill Spanish oak oloroso hogshead.

USA allocation: 90 bottles