Cask No. 10.232

Cask No. 10.232    

Down at the harbour

Islay

Clean yet oily aromas suggested smoked salmon, crushed nuts and prawns served with samphire and marie rose sauce on a sandy beach. Aniseed and liquorice announced themselves on the palate before bacon grease and medicinal cream dripped on to oily engine rags. With water we discovered mineral aromas and scorched herbs while nutty notes returned with smoked peanuts and distinctive carbolic hints mixed with evocative countryside smells. The palate now carried the weight of thick tar and muscle rub, however, lighter flavours of lemon peel, singed coconut husks and shortbread had emerged alongside salted liquorice and camphor. Five years in an ex-bourbon hogshead before being transferred to a toasted second fill hogshead.

Cask: Second-fill toasted oak hogshead
Age: 9 years
Date distilled: October 2013
Alcohol: 61.1%
USA allocation: 279 bottles
700mL bottle format