Tasting Panel Notes

Cask No. 53.413   

Bonfire on a Clyde puffer

Islay

We lit a bonfire in the autumn forest while imagining, at the same time, a whiff from a Clyde puffer engine room before peat smoked pears and vanilla pods and dry roasted peanuts took centre stage. On the palate it felt like “we varnished our tongues”, real intense smoke, medicinal, oily and greasy – truly an experience. After the more then needed dilution, we had a burnt baked apple, blackened bananas wrapped in aluminium foil, and we set a blackberry bush on fire. Still big but much more manageable with a sweet fruity plum wine, liquorice all sorts and in the finish a horseradish/wasabi heat.

Cask: Refill hogshead
Age: 10 years
Date distilled: April 2011
Alcohol: 57.4%
USA allocation: 144 bottles

700mL bottle format