Talisker 34 years old (D.1975, B.2010) Single Cask / 45.1%/ 0.7l

Talisker Distillery is named after a small farm near the village of Carbost on the Isle of Skye.

It began operating in 1830 and for almost 100 years (until 1928) used the triple distillation method typical of the Lowlands distilleries. It currently belongs to the Diageo group and produces over 3 million liters of distillate per year. In the new century, Talisker has recorded a huge sales dynamic. 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 Talisker presented here is a whisky from a slightly different story. Distilled on December 11, 1975, it spent almost three and a half decades in a refilled American oak cask (no. 4982), after which it was bottled at cask strength (45.1% abv) in 2010 in an edition of 250 bottles. The whisky is presented in a beautiful wooden case in the shape of a boat and the set includes two Glencairn crystal glasses.

Unfortunately, we did not have a chance to taste this whisky, we heard that it is the highest level of evolution of the genre, where notes of olives and Westphalian ham mix with the sweetness of tropical fruits, and everything is shrouded in peat smoke.