Smokehead Islay Single Malt Scotch at D&M California – Scotch Whisky News
Smokehead Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Heavy smoke and peat. Amazing richness. Lemon, fresh ginger, plum jam. Salty and spicy. Like a cannonball – hits the palate at once with cocoa, peat and some honey sweetness then explodes with peppery spice and more earthy peat. Spreads to all the areas of your mouth with more peat and light sweetness. Even more peat, spice, mandarin – then dries up. When you think it’s all over the peat comes back to hit you again. A rollercoaster of peat and spice with some delicate sweetness.
Join our Single Malt Scotch Clubs!
If you have a hankering for Single Malts (and the heart of a Scotsman) you might check out one of our two Single Malt clubs:
The D&M Single Malt Aficionado’s Society and the D&M Single Malt Connoisseur’s Club.
Well, we might not go that far, but at D&M we do have a passion for Single Malt Scotch Whisky that we can’t help but share. For those who don’t know, most Scotch whisky is produced at various locations and it then goes into blends, like Chivas Regal, Johnnie Walker or Dewars. A Single Malt Scotch Whisky is the product of one distillery, unblended with any other distillery’s make, or with any grain whisky. Most (but not all) of these distilleries are owned by the big liquor companies that own the big blends, and many are rarely seen bottled on their own. Others, Macallan’s is a fine example, are bottled almost exclusively in their unblended state.
At D&M we keep between two and three hundred different Single Malts on our shelves all the time. Why do we do that? Because each of these whiskies is an individual, and there are times that call for a seriously smoky malt, an Ardbeg, say. Then, there are those bright and pretty mornings when only a delicately ladylike Rosebank will fit the bill.
