Isle of Raasay Lightly Peated R-01 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

 

 

 

Launched in May 2021, this edition of 26,000 is the distillery's first not-too-hard-to-find and reasonably priced bottling. This is a sextuple maturation, as all three types of cask are made from peated and unpeated Concerto barley. All the whisky making is done on the distillery site, which seems to be virtually self-sufficient, rather like Kilchoman.

 

 

 

Let's Taste It : 

Iodine with a saline touch, almost greedy, a hint of citrus, and all this blended into a great minerality, limestone, gypsum, granite. The peat is soft and coats a few hints of cooked fruits, wild berries, cherry stones and toasted cereals. On the palate, it's obviously a little light given its young age, with apple, then fairly dry peat, a few spices, cumin and cloves, loamy earth, fat grass and arugula. A fine, long finish on cola, liquorice and bitter wood. Green tea. Vanilla bean.

In Short, 

This first batch is really very mineral and iodised, I like that. Of course, it's still very young, but it's a promising profile, and I can't wait to find out what happens next. There's a lot of room for improvement. Despite the somewhat borderline price, I'd recommend buying it.

Score : 85

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                          To Be Listened While Sipping :

  

                                           Eydis Evenson - Bylur