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 2025
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured
Peated around 25 ppm
The Draam is the new name of the R Lightly Peated series which appeared in 2021. The principle: each year, at least two new bottlings are made using the same recipe, based on six different casks, 1st Fill Rye, Chinkapin Oak and 1st Fill Bordeaux Red Wine, in both peated and unpeated varieties. The blend of all this creates the distillery's most accessible whisky, this being the 11th Batch, each time with a new and more incomprehensible code number. This one is made with Laureate barley from Scotland, the age is 3 to 5 years, and the number of bottles produced remains a mystery.
Let's Taste It :
Light lemon with costal notes, pulpy grapefruit, a spoonful of vanilla cream, fragile woodiness, grapes and lychees. Cinnamon, chocolate powder, a drop of pineapple. Sea spray, foam, sea air. Subdued peat, rocky and chalky. On the palate, it's still a little light, but the fruit fills in the gaps, banana, various citrus fruits, white grapes, liquid caramel, pleasant spices. Quite remarkable finish, oak bark, freshly cut wood, a few cereals, puffed rice, nuts, apple pieces. A pinch of iodine.
In Short,
On the palate, it's still a little light, but the nose is very fresh and costal, and the finish is quite long and powerful despite the reduction. I enjoyed the previous batches, and this one is more delicate but more summer-like. The price seems reasonable, so you can treat yourself, and the bottle is very pretty, at least it's decorative.
Score : 86
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Zennec Wave - Fade to Grey
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