Cask No. 42.77

Cask No. 42.77

Smoke from a burning drum

Highland,Island

The nose evoked eating Frazzles on the beach with distant bonfire smoke until the tide washed the bonfire away. On the palate, that smoke was joined by sweet heat (chilli langoustines), birch sap, cinders and a mineral lick of salt and pumice. The reduced nose seemed like a cocktail of ash and brine, with a hint of oily mackerel eaten from old newspapers next to a burning oil drum (contents of which included Abroath Smokies tails and strings and branches of sea buckthorn). The palate turned sweeter; we identified rhubarb crumble with cinnamon and raisins and a slightly burnt pecan pie.

Cask:Refill hogshead
Age: 13 years
Date distilled:February 2008
Alcohol: 58.3%
USA allocation: 120 bottles
700mL bottle format