61,6°
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 2025
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Peated around 25 ppm
The first Isle of Raasay Cask Strength bottlings were launched in 2024, but I didn't get a chance to taste them then. So this one is the 2nd Batch in the Cask Strength series, it's just their classic Lightly Peated bottling, with a blend of six cask types, half of which are peated, but without any reduction. It's an outturn of 5500 bottles.
Let's Taste It :
It's fresh and salty, very costal, with a lovely sea breeze whipping across your face, iodine and intense mineral notes. Brioche, sliced lime, earthy hints, vanilla cream, banana, white grapes. On the palate, it's unctuous and fruity, pleasant peat but hardly noticeable, gravel, lemon pie, coconut, lively spices. Powerful finish, it takes off but remains enjoyable. Good length, sea foam, quartz, crystalline caramel, cooked pears, crème fraîche, dried fruit. Cold ashes, wood-fired chestnuts.
In Short,
I like the character of the distillery, it's very costal and delicate at the same time. And here we find it in all its nakedness, it really is pure island whisky, with no false make-up. It's refreshing. The price is a little high, which is a pity, but fans of the profile may let themselves be tempted.
Score : 87
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Cuspid - Nematode
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