53,9°
Distillery Officially Unknown - Highlands
Refill Bourbon Hogsheads and Refill Oloroso Sherry Butts
Independent Bottling
By William Cadenhead Limited
Limited Edition
Single Malt
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Slightly Peated
After a short foray into Speyside, here we are in the Highlands. This one is a Highlander aged in Refill casks for 14 years. As it was bottled in 2024, there's an 11 in 12 chance that it was distilled in 2009. However, I haven't the slightest clue about the distillery, I swear. Someone wrote somewhere that maybe it was Loch Lomond, and it's true that it fits the profile. But absolutely no certainty. 1986 bottles are on sale.
Let's Taste It :
On the nose, there's a lovely slightly candied lemon, sponge cake, brioche, creamy vanilla, and a pulpy fruitiness, plums, juicy apples, bananas, lychees, pineapple. Salted butter caramel, cereals, a few forest notes, ferns, humus. On the palate, the cereals stand out, toasted wheat, malted barley, oats. Slight hint of peat, with a pinch of salt, spices rise, cumin, white pepper. Quite a long finish, still very cerealy, coal nuggets, smoked wood, hay. Crushed almonds.
In Short,
It's not bad, but nothing exceptional either. I barely smelled the peat, but I'm probably too used to Peat Bombs. I found that the cereals came back a little too often. That said, it does have a certain personality. The price seems a bit high to me, but within reasonable limits.
Score : 87
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Darwells - Little Pink Tree
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