Cask No. 4.300
A horned beast
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Flavour Profile:Lightly Peated
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Age:13 years
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Region:Highland, Island
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Cask:First-fill barrel
Notes
Cask No. 4.300
A horned beast
Highland, Island
A bright and superbly chiselled nose that initially displayed lemon air freshener, green herbs, bouillon stock, ham hough terrine and English mustard powder heat. Unusually peated and powerful - even for this old Orcadian Viking! Water made it sharper, more bready, yeasty and directly on lemon juice. The palate displayed an immediate wealth of camphor and tarry peat. Chalky notes, beach pebbles, seawater, olive oil and gauze. Reduction brought herbal cough medicines, smoked teas, aniseed liqueur and beach bonfire smoke. Wonderful and evocative whisky. At 9 years of age, we combined selected casks from the same distillery. We then returned the single malt into a variety of different casks to develop further. This is one of those casks. Originally from refill bourbon hogsheads, this was further married in a first fill barrel.
Cask: First-fill barrel
Age: 13 years
Date distilled: January 2008
Alcohol: 61.3%
USA allocation: 126 bottles
