Isle of Raasay Lightly Peated R-02 3 yo

 

 

 

46,4°

Distillery : Isle of Raasay - Islands 

1st Fill Rye Whiskey, Chinkapin Virgin Oak and 1st Fill Bordeaux Red Wine Casks

Original Bottling 

Limited Edition 

Single Malt 

Bottled in 2021

Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured

Peated around 25 ppm

 

 

 

After a first Batch released earlier in the year, the distillery is releasing this second test in September 2021 with the same recipe, called Na Sia, based on 3 different types of cask, each prepared with peated and unpeated Concerto barley, making a sextuple maturation in total. Ageing and bottling are done on the distillery's own premises, which operates almost entirely independently, rather like Kilchoman.

 

 

 

Let's Taste It : 

Crimson fruits, red berries, smoked blueberries. Then iodine, but light. Fairly fine smoke. Greasy peat. Indian spices. Candied ginger. Light but suave on the palate, with sea salt, diluted lemon and a touch of grapefruit. Quite rocky, with gypsum and pearly sea foam. The tide is there, kelp, salt, with fairly light sand. A sunny day in winter. Sea breeze, slate, quartz. The finish is long and stringy, fresh and cottony. Lychee juice. Dry earth and chestnuts. 

In Short, 

It's very good, and you don't feel the youth of the juice at all, it's amazing how much progress has been made in whisky making. This distillery is definitely one to watch for me, having said that I preferred the Batch R-01, although this one is slightly more peaty. I warmly recommend buying it.

Score : 85

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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