Whisky Magazine Issue 47
Celebrating Speyside - New Island Distilleries - Best Distillery tours - Islay Festival - Whisky and Cigar Challenge - Forty Creek - Whisky liqueurs.
Published April 2005.
85
- Nose
- Rich heavy nose with a vague floral touch (lilac?). Chestnut purée, white chocolate. A huge whiff of smoke emerges. Develops on toffee.
- Palate
- Smooth for the strength. Good grip. Water rounds it up. Creamy with an ashy dryness. Smoky.
- Finish
- Toffeish with a spicy burst. Smoke lingers.
- Comment
- Seems to hesitate between sweetness and dryness. Give it time to open, you will not regret it.
85
- Nose
- Maritime. Kipper-like, orange peel thrown on a barbecue, peat oil, tar, slightly sooty. Ever changing mix of dry, perfumed and sweet.
- Palate
- Starts soft and fruity, then peat. Medicinal peatiness balanced by caramelised sweetness.
- Finish
- Oatcake.
- Comment
- Expansive and complex. The balance and complexity gives it the edge over the other Islay.
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