I had just finished trying (and enjoying) the Finlaggan Cask Strength and since this is produced by a company owned by the Finlaggan bottlers and had the same strength and approximate color, I was expecting this to be similar. Let’s see how it fared.
Minutia: Neat in a glencairn, rested 10 minutes, then water added.
Color: Gold straw.
Nose: Salty, smoky apple and banana. Peat underlies every bit. Seaweed. Water brings fruit and it brings the peat with it.
Taste: Nothing. Oaky meat. It comes up real big and real quick after nothing for the first second or so. Water just kind of toned it down a bit.
Finish: Smoky bandage, heat/burn kind of like menthol. Largely unchanged with water.
This had a lot going on, as did the Finlaggan, but I didn’t enjoy it quite as much. It is odd to experience a potent nose and then taste nothing and then strongly taste in short order. This reminded me mostly of Lagavulin where the finish has that feel of breathing after a minty tea or cough drop.
Score: 82
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