Heather ember

$455

98 Left

Flavour Profile:

Lightly Peated
Age:

25 years
Region:

Highland Island
Cask:

First-fill ex-bodega Oloroso butt
ABV:

49.5%
VOL:

700mL

Notes

About Heather Ember: Our 25-year-old Creator's Collection malt struts hallmark 'heather & honey' peat with loads of richly intense flavors from an ex-bodega Oloroso butt. This is Orkney at its decadent best!

Tasting Panel Note: We all agreed this one was immediately stunning, as wispy Orcadian peat smoke mingled with impeccable, old-style sherry. It was observed more than once that this whisky was highly reminiscent of MUCH older official bottlings from this distillery. The nose evolved with beautiful and generous aromas of waxes, dried mushrooms, hessian, lapsing souchong tea and flinty coastal notes. Water brought peppery pastrami meatiness, black pepper, game salami, haggis nachos and dark fruits pickled in ancient balsamic. The palate was once again heavily old school in profile. Loads of gamey, leathery and salty sherry vibes met natural tar extracts, medicines and gorgeous, dry, heathery Orkney peat low down in the mix. With water we found such wonders as chip-shop brown sauce, layers of pipe tobacco and heather honey. This profile lingered long into the stunning aftertaste; rich with verbena, aged herbal liqueurs and old-school shilling ales. At 19 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.

USA allocation: 144 bottles