(60.6%, Dewar Rattray, Sherry, C#2466, 188 Bottles)

A bottling for Liquor Barn & Liquor Depot in the Province of Alberta, Canada (the remainder of the cask was bottled at 25yo and distributed in Europe). On the nose we have buttered peat smoke, coal smoke, sweet light sherry notes in the back ground, bonfires on the beach and hints of gauze. Very nice. The taste is much like the new 5yo Octomore but much smoother despite the similar A.B.V level; pepper, lime, plasticine, peat smoke heavily layered, very strong and one dimensional. The sherry is essentially buried beneath the peat smoke, coconut matting in the back ground. The first mouthful brings smoke and juniper mingled together, gin qualities abound. The finish is like wet matting with a curious back ground of shrimp crisps (very maritime!), cereals, smoke and creosote with little evidence of the promised sherry. No loss, sometimes a peat monster is enough. Quite long, warming.

A very nice Port Ellen.

Priced at C$225

Score: 83 Points