SMOKE DEVIL MARRIES A DELICATE SWEET THING
Cask No. 122.64
The first impression was that of salt, sea and light smoke, like opening a jar of olives on a Greek island in summer and adding them to a smoked mackerel and pickled walnut salad. On the palate we returned from Greece to a well-known Scottish whisky island with tarry and meaty flavours as we enjoyed roasted octopus with honeyed soy sauce and seaweed.
After reduction we had a salt beef and mustard mayo rye bread sandwich while we waited for our freshly roasted lamb which was cooking, super slowly, on a spit over charcoals. Following 11 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a 1st fill American oak Pedro Ximenez hogshead.
Age | 15 years |
Date Distilled | 27 May 2008 |
Initial Cask Type | Ex-bourbon hogshead |
Final Cask Type | 1st fill PX hogshead |
Region | Islay |
Outturn | 240 bottles |
ABV | 56.8 % |