90
- Nose
- Bitter chocolate and fudge pralines. Toasted nuts with late salt and pepper.
- Palate
- Astonishingly toffeeish, then toasty. The distracting richness of these flavours introduces a shock of contrast when the seaweed and characteristic volcanic flavours suddenly erupt.
- Finish
- An explosion in a gale.
- Comment
- Sensational (both literally and figuratively).
90
- Nose
- Sulphury, deep and honeyed with a peppery character and traces of wet labrador.
- Palate
- Bursting with prickling sweetness and teasingly reticent to subside. Eventually the pepperiness allows an infusion of soft peatiness to infiltrate.
- Finish
- Gently and soothingly fades with all characteristic intact.
- Comment
- Talisker bigger though slightly calmer than ever. And rather more-ish.