Bottle - Cask # 10.179
Cask No. 10.179, FLAMINGOS SMOKING PIPE TOBACCO

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Cask No. 10.179 Heavily peated

FLAMINGOS SMOKING PIPE TOBACCO

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A beautifully pink hue introduced aromas of salty sea air and sea shells as the sweet reek from burning peat wafted over barley. Fresh seaweed provided a mineralic edge that merged with sour cherries and morphed into cranberries on the palate, with a glass of port. Big and chewy chunks of charcoal rolled with tar and chimney soot before vanilla ice cream introduced wonderful textures.

Water on the smouldering ash unleashed more bellowing clouds of smoke but this time from sweetly scented pipe tobacco. Burning gorse and kelp combined with smoked ham as more medicinal notes of antiseptic cream and cough sweets united. Finally plum and gooseberry tarts brought a sweetness to the finish alongside liquorice and heat rub. After spending 10 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead this was transferred to a 1st fill red wine barrique for the remainder of its maturation.

 

Age 12
Date Distilled 1 December 2006
Cask Type 1st fill barrique
Region Islay
Outturn 243 bottles
ABV 60.2 %