Talisker 2009 8 years old Old Particular Single Cask - Douglas Laing - 70cl

Built in 1830 by the MacAskill brothers, Talisker Distillery is based on the Isle of Skye, the largest and most northerly of the Inner Hebrides.

This is a medium-sized distillery, equipped with five stills, capable of producing 3.3 million liters of distillate per year. In the new century, Talisker has recorded a huge sales dynamic, thanks in part to aggressive marketing by Diageo. It increased by several hundred percent, reaching 3.3 million bottles in 2020, which places the brand in ninth place in the single malt category sales statistics. The whisky presented here, distilled in December 2010, spent 8 years in a refill hogshead cask no. DL 13454, and was bottled by Douglas Laing & Co. in the Old Particular series in August 2019 in an edition of 383 bottles.

Nose : sweet and spicy, slightly smoky, vanilla, milk fudge, brown sugar, white pepper, lemongrass, green apples and a hint of salty breeze.

Palate : breakfast cereal, brown sugar, vanilla, salted peanuts, seaweed salad, white pepper, ginger, lemon peel, hints of hay, oak and smoke.

Finish: quite long, with notes of peat smoke and ash, white pepper, salted nuts, vanilla and a hint of ginger.
One of 402 bottles