Sea air, toasted almond and refined peat smoke mark the nostril of this single malt. The palate opens assertively smoky and savory, mixing bacon and mesquite with almond, honey and spice. This was aged in ex-bourbon casks and completed in casks that beforehand held peated whisky. (KN).
Outdated Pulteney, the good distillery located on Scotland’s Northern coast, solely makes unpeated malt. For this uncommon bottling, they’ve completed their malt in casks that beforehand held closely peated anCnoc single malt from their sister distillery Knockdhu. You get all of the salty brine of Pulteney mixed with the extraordinary peat of anCnoc for a particular tackle the peaty, salty fashion of whisky extra acquainted to followers of Islay.
David Othenin-Girard Ok&L Purchaser Assessment Date: 12/2024
That is a type of offers the place our value is so ridiculously low it provides folks pause. You might bear in mind the Outdated Pulteney Clipper or the Balblair 2005 that we secured earlier this 12 months. Every a type of flew off our cabinets as soon as the phrase received out and I obtained lots of of emails asking me if we have been going to get extra. It’s astonishing that we have been in a position to work this deal, principally as a result of this that is nonetheless obtainable all over on the a lot greater value. That was not the case both of the opposite two. However right here we’re.
A wonderful highland malt ace’d in a closely peated highland cask, provides us simply the tiny kiss of smoke that I typically crave when tasting fashionable Outdated Pulteney. I’m unhappy to say that that is each bit well worth the $60 they wish to cost for it, and I’d have been blissful to proceed to promote it at that value, however proper we’re in a valuation creation mode and we can’t resist the chance to share the worth that any such deal creates for our clients. Let’s have a style.
The colour is beautiful restrained deep gold (0.8), seemingly no coloring added right here though it’s not acknowledged on the bottle. The nostril presents no robust smoke or peat aromas, as an alternative the cask end serves to intensify the classical salty maritime character of the Pulteney malt in a particularly interesting approach. With a little bit of air, the candy sea air envelopes a basket of recent orchard fruit pear, yellow plum, lemon rind and apricot skins. Past {that a} deep base observe of malt presents some savory earthy, wealthy nutty and candy biscuit notes. The palate is extraordinarily pleasurable in a really overt form of approach -the savory notes described within the essential overview possibly have tamed barely in bottle during the last a number of years, however a pure and linear twinge of peat slices proper through the beautiful salty fruit on the entrance palate. Very refined wooden smoke, roasted heather, oily nuts, and lingering salt sits on the again palate and construct towards a gorgeous spice pushed end.
It’s not big bruiser or powerhouse, as an alternative providing a complexity typically misplaced in NAS malts and whereas it would delay those that completely HATE peat (albeit the Highland fashion relatively than the brackish iodine of Islay), I extremely doubt that anybody else will discover this overly smoky or peaty in anyway. That is first-rate malt, which really shouldn’t be obtainable for the value we’re charging. You’ve been warned that this isn’t to be missed, so don’t come crying to me when it’s all gone!
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