50,4°
Distillery : Loch Lomond - Highlands
Bourbon Cask
Independent Bottling
By Hidden Spirits
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2024
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Peated from 40 to 55 ppm
I'd forgotten there was a fourth bottling in the A Year Long Celebration series, in honour of 11 years of Hidden Spirits, an Italian bottler founded in 2013 by Andrea Ferrari. I'm going to try and list all the brands to come out of the Loch Lomond distillery. There are the unpeated ones: Loch Lomond, Old Rhosdhu, Inchmurrin, and the peated: Inchmoam, Inchfad and Croftengea. Each whisky is produced differently. Croftengea is the most heavily peated, double distilled in straight-neck stills, in the same way as Inchmurrin, except that Inchmurrin is not peated. This Croftengea doesn't seem to be one of the most peaty, it must be around 40/45 ppm, and it was aged in a single Bourbon cask for only 6 years. I don't know how many bottles were produced.
Let's Taste It :
Very mineral nose, with limestone and quartz, gypsum, slate. Peat and grit, earthy smoke. Lemon notes in the background, vanilla ointment, coconut, white chocolate. Fresh iodine, some sea spray. On the palate, it's oily, a thick layer of peat, charcoal balls, roots, but also almond milk, very ripe pears, cloves and grey pepper. Quite a long finish, quite worthy, charcoal-like, woody, dark chocolate, coffee, forest berries, ginger, bark, chestnuts in their husks, humus.
In Short,
It's not bad at all, with good earthy peat, but also mineral, typical of the Highlands, and I also found a few hints of costal, which would come from the islands. It's a little Peat Bomb, with character and an original personality, albeit a little young. The price is too high in my opinion, you can find just as good for less, but Peat Bombs from the Highlands are rare after all.
Score : 88
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Golden Apes - The Highest Point
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