Islay and jerez - twinned!

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Flavour Profile:

Peated
Age:

10 years
Region:

Islay
Cask:

First-fill American oak Oloroso hogshead
ABV:

56.8%
VOL:

700mL

Notes

About Islay and jerez - twinned!: We’re always happy to see an Islay whisky spend time in a sherry cask. My kind of dram, for sure, with all the glorious bells and whistles in one amazing sip! Here we have beach bonfires, diesel engines and smoked fish unite with toffee, cinnamon and molasses in this showstopper of a malt.

Tasting Panel Note: An amazing nose brought us black bun, liquorice, rum-flambéed pineapple and oysters with lemon and tabasco-pepper sauce, plus quaint hints of engine fan belts. The palate tasted like chilli lemon prawns from a beach bonfire, dried seaweed, chewing tobacco and fernet. The reduced nose offered dark sweetness (cinder toffee, cinnamon toast and cough lozenges), diesel engines in the harbour and fishermen’s oilskins drying in the sun. The palate combined sweet smoke (burnt newspaper, clinker ash, molasses and apple strudel) with coastal references (crab cakes and old lobster creels). This is a glorious twinning of Islay and Jerez; after seven years in ex-bourbon wood, this was transferred into a first fill American oak oloroso hogshead.

USA allocation: 96 bottles