mikael
Reviewed
August 27, 2017 (edited May 1, 2024)
It's been years since I've had this, but I felt like revisiting it. First whiff when the cork pops is all peat and earth. After a few minutes in the glencairn it opens up and gets quite light and even a little buttery on the nose. On the tongue perhaps not as balanced as I remember, with the peat really singing loud and proud, with the char and smoke bullying the quieter sweet and buttery notes. On the palate I get what tastes like a bar of pitch black chocolate that spent a night in a campfire. The finish comes through with a surprising grassy brightness like the first blades of grass popping up after a brush fire burnt through an area. Particularly enjoying the lack of thick goopy sherry here.