NUTS AND BELTS AND ENGINE OIL
Cask No. 66.240
SOLD OUT EVERYWHERE EXCEPT KENSINGTON WINE MARKET IN CALGARY
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 % |