More so than normal – we believe we have some particularly attractive and note worthy releases this month. Look out for the Queen’s Jubilee bottling of Royal Brackla 12 year old from the two (2) OLD MALT CASK releases. From OLD & RARE we have two (2) new bottlings including a Port Ellen 32 year old and within five (5) new releases of the DIRECTOR’S CUT you will see a 27 Years Old Highland Park, a 45 Year old Ben Nevis and a 50 Year Old North British Grain bottling –some of which we are certainly hoping will be of interest to you and your valued clients.

Tasting Notes for OLD MALT CASK:

OMC 2138 Royal Brackla 12 Year Old Queen’s Jubilee bottling
The nose opens with a nutty and spicy character and is crowned with marzipan and orange zest. The palate is right royally spiced and runs to a fresh walnuts and dark chocolate quality. The finish is long, still spicy and carries a sceptre of hazelnut and mocha. (J)

OMC 2017 Glen Scotia 18 Year Old Sherry
Nose: Opens ich & spicy with toffee and a caramelized fruit style Palate: Round & mellow – richly spiced – running to a briny quality Finish: Smooth – still spicy – carrying a hard candy character (F&J)

Tasting Notes for DIRECTOR’S CUT:

DIR 0010 Bowmore 15 Year Old
Nose: Buttery & sweet + vanilla (burnt crème brulée) + a gentle smoke quality
Palate: Still sweet – runs to a soft smoke and sweet barbecue ashes character
Finish: Long – still sweet, now with a rich dark chocolate style + soft chewy tar

DIR 0009 Blair Athol 16 Year Old Sherry
Nose: Opens sweet & fruity, carrying a rich malty character and running to sweet spices & vanilla
Palate: Mouth coatingly spiced – lightly smoked – developing to sweet cherries and ginger shortbread
Finish: Sweet & citric – barley sugar style – then running drier to a crisp malt quality (J)

DIR 0014 Highland Park 27 Year Old
Nose: Honey sweet showing – barley, sugar linseed and assorted spices.
Palate: A myriad of different spices + late cedar, maple syrup + more honey.
Finish: Now lightly spiced – but with cough drops, herbs + late baked cake (F)

DIR 0012 Ben Nevis 45 Year Old
Nose: Spicy, with a Sherry trifle style and a drier/oaky backdrop.
Palate: Warmly spiced & tingling – heads drier to cloves in oranges.
Finish: A cough drop quality – mentholated! – dry yet warming (F)

DIR 0011 North British 50 Year Old Grain
Nose: So old yet so fresh – round, full of sweet autumn fruits + light oak, coffee, cedar & tobacco.
Palate: Carries softly ripening fruit flavours + mocha + cough drop spices and candy floss.
Finish: All too fast! – but detect those soft warming spices which are still very apparent. (F)

Tasting Notes follow here for OLD AND RARE:

OAR 0165 Littlemill 20 Year Old
Opens clean and fresh on the nose, carrying a fruity and creamy vanilla character plus an attractive barley sugar style. The palate remains creamy – now with a macerated fruit quality and runs to sweet spices – particularly
ginger. The finish is medium long, still spicy, running drier to a soft cedar wood style (J)

OAR 0159 Port Ellen 32 Year Old
Opens richly spiced, carrying a fresh leather character – still surprisingly peaty for its age with an earthy, smoked grist character. The palate is initially sweetly peated and runs to a smoke, toffee and spiced character – each pushing for more attention until they harmoniously join in the long finish, now with salty liquorice – soot and a charcoal ashy quality. (J)

As always – we are at your service for any enquires you may care to send on to us.

All best wishes
Fred Laing
Managing Director

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Kilchoman Machir Bay 46%abv

(Comments by LFW)

Another enjoyable dram from the distillery that produces great whiskies without the handicap of age statements. This time youth shows but no harm in that at all.

Here is the first “general release” from Kilchoman a vatting of 3, 4 and 5 year old, matured in fresh bourbon barrels with the 4yo finished in Oloroso sherry butts for 8 weeks. Machir (pronounced macker) is the wonderful bay and wide sandy beach next to the distillery.

Initially the aroma of of peat and nutmeg, hot ash, fruit (apples and pears) and a curious lava and chlorine note, smoky bacon cooked in a lake on a volcano. I also have a note here of ‘piano keys’, but I’m sure you know what I mean. Just at the point of tipping I got a hint of furniture polish.

Tasted it is warm, quite thick with peat, Germoline and youth. Peaty barley is the overall effect with a dry swallow and finish. Water sweetens it up adding chocolate and caramel and banana esters.

Kilchoman’s flavour position is established mid-way between oily Caol Ila and the stomping-peats of the south, this standard is a fine example of our new member of the clan Single Malt.

C10 on the Flavour map
On the smoky side of light and smoky

Kilchoman Machir Bay

Price excluding VAT: £31.58
£37.90 Including VAT at 20%

English Whisky Jubilee Decanter

Today, the Queen will begin a tour of the UK as part of celebrations to mark her Diamond Jubilee.

The English Whisky Company have launched a collectable, yet affordable expression celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s 60 years as our Monarch.

A unique one-off single malt whisky never to be repeated, with only 2000 bottles available in the UK .

This bottle will attract a huge audience of whisky collectors, royalist souvenir collectors and novelty buyers worldwide.

English Whisky Comapny created a special bottling of single malt to celebrate the wedding of Will & Kate last year and they sold very quickly with us……

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GLEN GRANT 60 YEARS OLD

 QUEEN ELIZABETH II DIAMOND JUBILEE (1952-2012)

A 60 year old malt Single Malt Whisky has been launched today (6th February 2012) in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubillee by one of the world’s leading malt whisky specialist.

Gordon & MacPhail – the Elgin based and family-run Single Malt Whisky specialist – has released only 85 bottles of Glen Grant 60 years old.

On the 6th February 1952, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II acceded to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and became Head of the Commonwealth. Four days earlier on the 2nd February 1952, on the instruction of George Urquhart, two First Fill Sherry Hogsheads – cask numbers 465 and 466 – were filled at Glen Grant and left to quietly mature at the distillery.

Cask 465 was transferred to the Bonded Warehouses of Gordon & MacPhail on 26th March 1968. On the 2nd February 2012, exactly sixty years after the whisky was distilled, the instruction was given to carefully empty cask number 465 and bottle the precious contents at cask strength.

In honour and celebration of Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee, the Directors at Gordon & MacPhail have released just 85 decanters of Glen Grant 60 Years Old.

The single Malt is presented in a pyramid shaped crystal decanter adorned with a diamond shaped stopper. Each decanter is expertly engraved – the script in-filled with silver – and uniquely numbered.

The decanter carries an engraved crown with a sparkling Swarovski crystal, set at the meeting point of the crowns two arches. A silver collar, placed around the neck of the decanter completes the presentation.

The decanter is packaged in a hand-crafted box made of Scottish Elm, felled a short distance from Holyrood House, the Queen’s official Scottish residence. The decanter nestles in the box with luxurious, purple Harris Tweed and a dust jacket made from the same material protects the box an the precious contents.

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This month we have selected five (5) PROVENANCE bottlings.

PROVENANCE Tasting Notes follow:

PRV 0764 Ardmore 8 Year Old
Peated (and somewhat Islay in style) as the nose opens then crunched sugare, leafy smoke and damp green grass appears. Palatewise – it is sweet, softly peated – mouthcoating oily and carries a barley/biscuity quality.T

PRV 0775 Glen Ord 11 Year Old
Opens clean and fresh on the nose, grassy, running to a fresh fruit (pear and banana) character. The palate is gristy sweet then runs to a “poached pears in vanilla syrup” quality. The finish remains fruity throughou the
long finish is warmingly spiced, still softly peated, still lightly smoked (F).

PRV 0779 Glendullan 12 Year Old
The nose opens with an apparent vanilla and crushed sugar quality and develops to a fruity sweetness. Initially the palate is sweet carrying a soft spiced quality plus more fruit – now macerated. This all runs to a dry finish – still spicy and with an oak tang. (J)

PRV 0774 Ben Nevis 14 Year Old
“Warm honey sweet” initially on the nose – as if the honey is dropped into a first stage Hot Toddy plus vanilla pods and citrus. Palatewise – it is nicely “chewy”, toffee sweet with fresh summer fruits and only late can you
catch some gentle spices – which are now more warmly reflected in the finish. (F)

PRV 0776 Caol Ila Young and Feisty
Opens fresh and grassy on the nose, carrying a buttery sweet character then runs to a smoky quality – burnt home bake style. The palate opens sweetly then warms to soft coal tar and sweet smoke – all running to a long
dry finish carrying cigar ashes and a late camphor character. (J)

As always – we are at your service for any enquires you may care to send on to us.

Yours sincerely
Fred Laing
Managing Director

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Scotland – Single Malt Scotch

1993 Ardbeg 10 Year Cadenhead’s Cask Strength Single Malt 70cl (Elsewhere $250) – 1 available ($169.99)

1994 Ardbeg 11 Year Cadenhead’s Single Malt 70cl (Elsewhere $200) – 1 available ($159.99)

1993 Ardbeg 12 Year Cadenhead’s Cask Strength Single Malt 70cl – 2 available ($179.99)

1994 Ardbeg 12 Year Cadenhead’s Single Malt 70cl – 1 available ($154.99)

1991 Ardbeg 15 Year Old Malt Cask Single Malt 700ml – 1 available ($199.99)

2001 Ardbeg 21 Year Old Committee Release Islay Single Malt Whisky 70cl (Elsewhere $1200) – 2 available ($999.99)

1975 Ardbeg 25 Year Old Malt Cask Single Malt 700ml (Previously $1000) – 1 available ($599.99)

Ardbeg Committee Reserve Islay Single Malt Whisky 700ml – 2 available ($799.99)

1994 Ardbeg Spirit of Scotland Cask Strength Single Malt 70cl – 1 available ($129.99)

1995 Ardbeg Spirit of Scotland Single Malt 700ml – 1 available ($144.99)

1990 Ardbeg Spirit of Scotland Single Malt 70cl – 1 available ($99.99)

Bowmore 10 Year Old (Glass Printed Label) Single Malt Whisky 750ml – 1 available ($59.99)

Bowmore 12 Year (Glass Printed Label) Old Single Malt Whisky 750ml (Elsewhere $100) – 1 available ($69.99)

Bowmore Cask Strength (Glass Printed Label) Islay Single Malt Whisky 750ml (Elsewhere $100) – 2 available ($99.99)

1965 Caledonian 45 Year Old K&L Exclusive Sovereign Single Barrel Cask Strength Grain Whisky 750ml ($169.99) Closed forever in 1988, Caledonian was a Lowland grain distillery that was once famed for having Europe’s biggest patent still. The nose is salted caramel and sticky Sauternes with rich and enticing aromas of sweet goodness. The palate however is grain all the way – lean and herbal, odd and exciting, crazy cool and super fun – truly a difficult malt to truly explain. It almost tastes peated! Knowing this was going to be for the true whisky nerds out there, we originally decided to pass on this cask even though we loved it. However, when the owners let us deal via our own importer, we were able to work out a ridiculous price for such an ancient collectable (the closest comparison we could find was a 45 year Caledonian selling in the UK for more than $200). Similar grains of this age have sold at K&L in the past for over $300. While this bottle isn’t for everyone, it is meant for the curious collector looking to branch out and understand the various styles of Scotch. Grain whisky has always been an important element of blended whisky and continues to provide the backbone to legends like Johnnie Walker Blue and Chivas Regal. While it has recently fallen out of “style,” there is a strong grain whisky revival festering once again and we’re glad to be, as usual, at the forefront of all whisky movements. -David Driscoll, K&L Spirits Buyer

Dalmore Cigar Malt Single Malt Whisky 750ml – 6 available ($129.99)

1990 Girvan 20 Year Old K&L Exclusive Sovereign Single Barrel Cask Strength Grain Whisky 750ml ($82.99) The home of the old Ladyburn distillery, this is the perfect sister bottle to our “Rare Ayrshire” cask (which unfortunately is now sold out). Girvan once housed the now defunct Ladyburn, but was more known for its role in creating the Black Barrel brand available in Scandinavia and Latin America. This is another whopper of a whisky that is difficult to describe. Dry, herbal, grainy on the nose, but the palate is expressive and clean, loaded with vanilla and oak on the front end, but finishing dry with apples and pears in a fruity flurry of flavor. So much fun, but more for the experienced drinker than the novice. We loved the complexity of this whisky, but were very afraid about consumer interest due to its esoteric character. When we learned that we could work with an importer of our choice, we were able to negotiate an amazing price making this deal a no-brainer. Other prices on Girvan of this age (if you can even find a bottle) fester around the $100+ range, making our cask the equivalent of a closeout bargain. David OG and I felt a duty to import this barrel for the super whisky geeks out there, those who are never satisfied with the limited selection of most stores -the uber-curious, adventurous whisky connoisseurs everywhere. Compass Box’s John Glaser told us we were making him proud! -David Driscoll, K&L Spirits Buyer

1963 Glenmorangie 22 Year Old Sherry Cask Single Malt Whisky 750ml (Elsewhere $1600) – 1 available ($1,299.99)

Laphroaig 40 year old, Islay Single Malt Whisky 750ml (Elsewhere $5400) – 2 available ($2,999.99) Very old and Rare bottling of Laphroaig. This is one of a kind in the USA and sells overseas for upwards of $3500.

1970 St. Magdalene 23 Year Rare Malts Selection Single Malt Whisky 70cl (Elsewhere $700) – 1 available ($549.99)

1979 Talisker 13 Year Old Cadenhead’s Authentic Collection 150th Anniversary Bottling Single Malt 70cl – 1 available ($249.99)

1979 Talisker 15 Year Old Cadenhead’s Cask Strength Collection Single Malt 750ml (Elsewhere 600) – 1 available ($399.99)

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Scotland – Single Malt Scotch

Bowmore Claret Finish Cask Strength Islay Single Malt Whisky 750ml (Elsewhere $300) – 2 available ($149.99)

Bunnahabhain 18 year old Islay Single Malt Whisky 750ml ($94.99)

Dalmore King Alex Single Malt 750ml – 1 available ($199.99)

Dalwhinnie 15 year old Single Malt Whisky 750ml – 11 available ($49.99)

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Shiver me timbers!

Cask No. 4.151                     

Highlands, Orkney

The nose was just fabulous – orange, pomegranate, dried fruits, crystallised ginger, Madeira wine, crème brûlée, black tea, honey, treacle toffee, balsamic – endless suggestions. On the palate, exotic fruits (kumquat, star-fruit) cavorted behind a curtain of honey and perfumed smoke; we also found red wine reduction and roast pork residue – ‘shiver me timbers!’ someone exclaimed. The reduced nose was burnt sticks dipped in honey, with medicinal elements and Old Holborn rolled in liquorice papers. Liquorice allsorts, roasted chestnuts and toasted marshmallows gave us wonderful closure on the rich and dreamy reduced palate. The distillery is on the ‘high land’ aboveKirkwall.

Drinking tip: For best friends, or when you need reminded that life can be good

 Colour: Deep vibrant orange                             

Cask: Refill sherry butt                                    

Age: 26 years                                        

Date distilled: December 1984

Alcohol: 53.1%

$170

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Leather sofa seduction

Cask No. 63.26                     

Highlands, Speyside

The interesting, dynamic nose suggested fruit (schnapps, Armagnac, Victoria sponge); also caramel, spicy sweets and cough syrup; then descriptions began to emerge involving cigarette packets, perfume and leather (for one panellist it conjured up ‘a leather sofa, a hot guy and some cologne’). The palate, quite hot in its own right, contained dried papaya, orange, star-fruit and grappa, with big, manly wood and leather astringency. With water the nose found fruit pastilles and ‘masculine’ perfumes (spicy, woody, musky). The palate now balanced its leather and tobacco depth, with elegant, exotic, perfumed mango fruitiness. The distillery is between Keith and Dufftown.

Drinking tip: Best enjoyed on a leather sofa with a hot guy – obviously! (unless you ARE the                           hot guy)

Colour: Apricot gold                                          

Cask: Second-fill hogshead                               

Age: 21 years                                        

Date distilled: December 1989

Alcohol: 52.6%

$140

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A lady of the night

Cask No. 85.22                     

Highlands, Speyside (Lossie)

Dark scents beset us: date loaf with Pecan nuts, rum truffles, Jamaican ginger cake, fudge with raisins, and a waft of (unlit) menthol cigarettes. At natural strength the taste is sweet with a light bitterness like burnt toffee (‘salt-water taffy’ commented one), dark chocolate in the finish and Kendal mint-cake in the aftertaste. Water conjured a leather couch against a backdrop of dripping candles, Pecan pie, treacle tart and Caramac, with a smooth texture and a centre-palate taste, sweet overall, with hints of spice and camphor in the finish. The malt comes from the last distillery to be built in the 19^th Century.

Drinking tip: Reclining on a leather Chesterfield with a special friend

Colour: Pale amber                                           

Cask: Refill sherry butt                                    

Age: 12 years                                        

Date distilled: September 1999

Alcohol: 60.0%

$105

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Shockingly comfortable

Cask No. 127.12                   

Islay,LochIndaal

A powerful, prickly nose, with charred wood, machine oil and tar to start, and old crepe bandages, becoming smoky ‘Bacon Bits’, soya and smoked duck with plum sauce. Water reinforces the medicinal notes with Savlon cream; the smoke has receded slightly – now tarry vanilla-infused cigars. The taste is hot, sweet, smoky and very salty at natural strength, softening with water and reminding us of burnt carrots and turnips before the warm smoky finish. A ‘shockingly comfortable’ example of the heavily peated malt named after anIslay distillery which closed in 1929, but which may soon be rebuilt.

 Drinking tip: To accompany an Oriental meal

Colour: Full gold                                              

Cask: Refill barrel                                            

Age: 8 years                                         

Date distilled: June 2002

Alcohol: 66.3%

$85

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A model-maker’s dram

Cask No. G6.2                      

Grain

A complex nose – beeswax furniture polish, green grapes, gooseberries, tinned peaches and fresh puffball mushrooms; with its freshly sanded balsa wood and glue it also appealed to the model-makers. The palate was a complete surprise – vanilla, syrup, clear toffee, chocolate, roasted peppers and a stunning, light oakiness (almost with leaves on) – ‘Brilliant!’ someone exclaimed. The reduced nose became sweeter and more perfumed – vanilla, orange blossom, roasted vegetables and after sitting a while, a Chinese takeaway! The reduced palate was simple, but very quaffable – blossom honey with a slightly bitter lick-stick of oak. This grain distillery is near Springburn inGlasgow.

Drinking tip: A dram for pottering around in the shed

Colour: Pale yellow summer wine                                 

Cask: Refill barrel                                            

Age: 18 years                                        

Date distilled: February 1993

Alcohol: 55.2%

$130

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Highland Park OB 21yo 47.5%alc.

Official notes:

‘Originally created exclusively for global travel retail and duty free markets, this whisky was named Best Single Malt of the Year at the World Whisky Awards 2009. Released in October 2007, Highland Park 21 is a full-flavoured, powerful, sweet single malt with a rich smoky finish.

Tasting Notes

Appearance: Natural colour; reddish gold Orkney sunset

Nose: Butterscotch, dark chocolate and orange

Palate: Full flavour, candied orange peel with spicy dark chocolate leading to a rich smoky sensation

Finish: Rich, complex, sweet smoky sensation then soft medium dryHighland Park 21 Year Old has a rounded spicy sweetness, with hints of orange peel and dark chocolate. This whisky tingles the middle of the tongue then immediately makes the mouth water, leaving a rich smokEy sensation which seems to last forever.

Press Quotes

“..one of the best Highland Parks I have ever tasted (and I’ve probably tasted more than 100 over the past several years). This whisky is lush, well-balanced, and very complex. Well-defined notes of toffee, candied fruit, and roasted nuts, are accentuated by background honey, chocolate mousse, and smoke. And here’s the icing on the cake: it’s bottled at 47.5% which really allows the flavours to shine.”

John Hansell, Editor Malt Advocate Magazine December 2007′

Highland Park 21yo  47.5% abv  £89.90 inc vat  £74.92 ex vat 

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anCnoc Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky unveils the latest annual vintage release – anCnoc 1998

anCnoc 1998 is a continuation of a series of highly praised small batch vintage releases from the Knockdhu Distillery. Spirit from American Oak ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks at the optimum level of maturity was brought together and bottled in February 2012 to produce only 850 cases of whisky. The spirit has been bottled in its natural form – unchill-filtered and at natural colour. It has a premium ABV of 46%.

It has become a tradition at anCnoc to release a limited vintage expression every year. Each time no more than a few casks are artfully put together by the Distillery Manager Gordon Bruce and company’s Master Blender Stuart Harvey to showcase the character of the spirit from the vintage year. These small batches of fine Single Malt are a mark of anCnoc’s commitment to hand-crafting whisky. They are a true celebration of the art of distilling.

anCnoc 1998 will be available in the UK, Germany, Russia, Japan and France from March 2012.

Notes

• anCnoc [a-nock] Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky is produced at Knockdhu Distillery in the village of Knock near Huntly. The distillery was established in 1894 and is considered one of the most enchanting in Scotland.
• Core expressions of anCnoc include a 12 year old and a 16 year old. Both are multi-award-winning and celebrated worldwide.
• anCnoc 1998 benefits from being unchill-filtered. This means extra body and flavour. The whisky may however develop a light haze with the addition of water or if chilled – it is natural.

Bruichladdich Octomore 4.2 Comus  Now In Stock – March 2012 The Bruichladdich Octomore has finally arrived…

As with all previous releases of Octomore, this is bottled at 5 years of age. Distilled from barley peated to 167 ppm. There are only 18,000 bottles available world-wide.

These words are from John Milton’s work ‘Comus’, written in 1634. It’s a philosophical discourse about the tension between sensual pleasure and physical abandon, extravagance and moderation, chastity and virtue.Milton’s morality play of a beautiful virgin’s struggle to protect her virtue is based on an ancient legend. Bacchus, the god of wine (and debauchery), seduced the enchantress Circe, ‘the loveliest of all immortals’, daughter of Helios the sun god. The result of their union, a son, Comus. Invested with the divine powers of his parents, Comus ‘excels his mother at her mighty art’, in conjuring up yet more powerful magic potions. His was the skill to create sensual, hedonistic and intoxicating potions, ‘orient liquor in a crystal glass’, that could seduce the innocent, the virginal, with wild, sensual orgiastic pleasures.

Comus became the god of excess. But in Milton’s struggle the innocent’s virtue prevails.

In Octomore 4:2 ‘COMUS’ we have such a mysterious and ambrosial potion.

The same duality, a similar struggle: the most heavily peated whisky in the world, matured in the very finest oak possible, impregnated with the greatest sweet wine known to man.

An unlikely combination. A tension? An excess? Or a divine, ethereal, otherworldly experience?

We call it Comus.

Do not be deceived, all is not what it seems…

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Bruichladdich Octomore 04.2 Comus 5yo OB 61%Abv.

This time it’s subtlety and smoke… But still peaty.

“Comus” is 2012’s release of Bruichladdich’s giga-peaty brand, limited to 18,000 bottles yet probably likely to be gone quickly. Compared with previous Octomores this one is more delightful yet satisfyingly peaty still. Finished in a Chateau Y’Quem cask, Comus was the son of Bacchus (by-the-way).

The colour of golden white wine with a smoky and hot aroma, suggesting hot brakes. Earthy and not too peaty at first, fish-boxes, cooked fruit (raspberry jam) and banana rum come out once you are numb to the peat that also strengthens with time. On returning to the aroma I later got punnets of exotic fruits, well exotic to Scotland anyway.

Tasted, there is a big swoosh of peat on the tongue, it’s subtle yet powerful and initially it’s all there is; time reveals salt activity, coal-tar, scorched sand paper and surgical spirits. It buzzes peat-smoke and has a persistent peaty finish.

With water the aroma gains oily rags and the fruitiness gives the peat a good bashing, while I don’t get much wine influence as grapes there is definitely a lot of desert wine to it as tropical fruits.

Here is a more subdued Octomore and at this stage in the release schedule, better for that. If you like peaty whisky then this will be an absolute delight for you, different but delivering.

Square G9 smoky and just a bit rich.

Bruichladdich Octomore Comus 5yo 04.2_167  £96.90 inc vat  £80.75 ex vat

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