Product description
Talisker Distillery was built in 1830 by brothers Hugh and Kenneth MacAskill.
Its headquarters is 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 the then owner, United Distillers, included a 10-year-old version in the original Classic Malts series. Talisker was bottled as a 12-year-old in the 1970s. As we remember, until 1972, the distillery produced its own malt, which makes the bottle presented here truly unique.
Nose : fruity, smoky and peaty, apricots, apples, lemon peel, traces of sea breeze and seaweed, a handful of dried herbs, pepper and steaming cappuccino.
Palate: baked apples and pears, quince jelly, seaweed salad, pine needles, candied citrus peel, smoked salmon, white pepper and peat.
Finish: long, with notes of sea breeze and seaweed, ginger, fruit candy, camphor and peat smoke in the background.