Finally getting to this almost to the day when the release two years later gets released.
Tallisker 15 Cask Strength 2019 Special Release, Island (Skye) Single Malt, 57.3% ABV
Minutia: Matured for 15 years in freshly charred American oak hogsheads and bottled in 2019. Enjoyed neat in a glencairn.
Color: Burnished; 1.1.
Nose: Smoke under minerally fruit. Malt with a lemony twinge to it.
Taste: Spice, black pepper into cayenne. Tames to wood.
Finish: Malty, drying, a bit of spice. Ash late. Long. Like, very long.
This is pretty good, it’s nice to try an older cask strength expression from one of the first distilleries I enjoyed. I’ll have to revisit this in the future as the review was conducted with covid. While I don’t notice any loss of smell or taste elsewhere and got most if not all notes I expected from this, that could have been affected.
Score: 87
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