A CORNUCOPIA OF CURIOSITIES

PEATED

CASK No. 108.43

$170

REGION Speyside

CASK TYPE 2nd fill bourbon barrel

AGE 11 years

DATE DISTILLED 4 March 2010

OUTTURN 204 bottles

ABV 62.1%

AUS ALLOCATION 42 bottles

The nose is a cornucopia of curiosities – gooey chocolate fondants, coconut and mango to start, then cured meats, and finally mustard, horseradish and bonfire embers. The palate brings together sweetness and peatness – cherry chocolates, brown sugar on a smoking side of salmon, rauchbier, liquorice, burning tarry driftwood and bacon sizzling in a skillet. The reduced nose combines custard and banana loaf with sugar-coated fennel seeds, coconut sun cream and a mediaeval turnbrochie’s chimney smokeinfused tunic. The palate still welds together sweet foamy shrimps, pink wafers and chocolate éclairs with more bitter notes of dark chocolate, brine, road tar and acrid smoke.