Product description
Talisker Distillery was built in 1830 by brothers Hugh and Kenneth MacAskill.
It is based on Skye, the largest and most northerly island of the Inner Hebrides. Today, the distillery is owned by Diageo and, equipped with five stills, produces 2.7 million litres of distillate per year. Talisker single malt remained largely unknown until 1988, when then owner United Distillers included a 10-year-old version in the original Classic Malts series. Talisker currently ranks 10th in the single malt whisky sales statistics, with 3.3 million bottles sold per year (2020). The whisky presented here, distilled in December 2010, spent 10 years in a refill hogshead cask DL 14979 and was bottled in May 2021 in the Old Particular Douglas Laing & Co. series in an edition of 383 bottles.
Nose : a gust of salty breeze, damp sand and shells, tarred ropes, barley malt, smoked fish, vanilla, toffee, white pepper, a touch of ginger and peat smoke in the background.
Palate : sweet with a pinch of salt, seaweed salad, vanilla, salted caramel, lemon peel, roasted nuts, white pepper, lemongrass and peat smoke.
Finish : quite long, with notes of vanilla, pepper and salt, ginger, lemon peel and peat smoke in the background.