SOUND OF SINGING SAND

PEATED

CASK NO. 10.241

$279

REGION Islay

CASK TYPE 1st fill American oak PX hogshead

AGE 14 years

DATE DISTILLED 27 May 2008

OUTTURN 277 bottles

ABV 57.6%

AUS ALLOCATION 132 bottles

Gorgeously sweet and syrupy peat aromas at first nosing, it was an immediate hit with the Panel. With a little time we also found gallons of natural tar extract, iodine drops, bacon jam and smoky black coffee aromas. The sweetness of long-aged PX sherry mixed with hessian, cocoa and peat embers in a sooty hearth – just gorgeous! With water it became superbly resinous and aromatic, giving off intricate notes of sawn rosewood, smoked paprika, homemade spiced ketchup, lanolin and herbal cough syrups. A waft of pure peat smoke from a kiln. The palate had plumes of damp wood smoke, dusty coal embers, sweet peat smoke, BBQ sauce, chilli glaze and root beer cordial, followed by more iodine, antiseptic, eucalyptus oils and salted liquorice.

REGION Islay

CASK TYPE 2nd fill PX hogshead

AGE 9 years

DATE DISTILLED 17 October 2013

OUTTURN 287 bottles

ABV 58.8%

AUS ALLOCATION 102 bottles

We were all in agreement nosing neat – a bowl full of herby chicken and bacon lardons with a red onion mash next to a green lentil curry. On the palate, we sat on lovely sunwarmed stones at the beach listening to the calming sound of “singing sand” and eating salty crackers with a smoked tuna dip. Dilution delivered an aroma of peat-smoked marshmallows and charred lobster meat combined with an emerging freshness of sea salt and citrus. The taste was delicious and so moreish, like pâtes à la saucisse de Francfort eaten straight out of the frying pan. Following five years in an ex-bourbon hogshead we transferred this whisky into a second fill PX hogshead.