Bottle - Cask # 42.44
Cask No. 42.44, Winter warmer

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Cask No. 42.44 Peated

Winter warmer

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The nose evokes a beach bonfire barbecue on shell sand – maple-cured bacon and Portobello mushrooms sizzling away; someone is smoking Sobrani cigarettes and there are creamy custard tarts for after. The palate is pretty straightforward – balancing simple sugary barley sweetness with mineral, shale-like smoke; it has a slightly oily mouth-feel.

Water shifts the nose to coal tar soap and creamy, nutty smoke. The palate is now much sweeter and better balanced – imagine smoked bonbons; a touch of citrus starts to come through – lemon, clove and Fisherman’s Friends on the finish. A dram for inner warmth before chopping logs in the snow.

 

Age 9 years
Date Distilled 21 February 2008
Cask Type Refill ex-bourbon hogshead
Region Islands
Outturn 232 bottles
ABV 58.5 %