Cask No. 53.478
Winter's green
$180
123 Left
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Flavour Profile:Lightly Peated
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Age:12 years
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Region:Islay
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Cask:Refill hogshead
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ABV:57.6%
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VOL:700mL
Notes
In celebration of Islay Whisky Festival 2024
About Winter's Green: Our US-exclusive Islay cask presents a gentler smoke with notes of mesquite and smouldering campfire. The telltale fruit richness from this distillery comes through on the finish for a lively and complex sipper. A wonderful starter dram for those Islay-curious whisky lovers!
Tasting Panel Note: A soggy peat bog baked in the summer heat, surrounded by pine trees and a lingering mesquite smoke. The nose was full. The palate didn't disappoint, serving mesquite-smoked brisket, sugar snap peas and brine, with a big wintergreen and thyme burst at the end. Water introduced birch sap, smouldering logs and a herbaceous smoke on the nose. The palate was sweeter now, and lighter in texture.
Members Note: Always a sucker for cask strength distillery 53 and this one doesn’t disappoint. Light color almost clear, smelling it gets the nice medicinal iodine peat and some fruitiness. It tastes juicy with a lot of fruit and sweetness as it coats my mouth. Then the smoke hits into a long-lasting finish. A hint of floral as well. Really enjoying this and can’t wait to share it with my friends.
-MICHAEL S. from California
USA allocation: 264 bottles
