Isle of Raasay Single Malt Inaugural Release

Meh. Surprenant pour un whisky de 3 ans, mais le goût est un peu anonyme pour l’instant. Ça va sûrement être intéressant dans 10 ans. Pour l’instant c’était non mémorable ! Goûté à l’Ile Noire en 2022-07.

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The nose is bright, peaty and quite heavily influenced by the Bordeaux wine casks. Mild peaty tones in the mouth, more wine influence and a soft sweetness going over to some light spicy aftertaste. It is a pleasant whisky which I feel is being quite dominated by the Bordeuax casks. Looking forward to tasting a longer matured offering without any cask finishing! My mind is jumping in the direction of a strange, less briny Talisker offshoot. The color is quite something, it really has a red coppery tone to it.

Here we go again with another inaugural malt. These things are like IPOs...comes in pre-open with one price, and then starts the opening day with sky high valuations ( yes...Looking at you ABNB). So, I actually was fortunate to pay only £60 for this when they first offered it 2 years ago. For £60, I was to get the full bottle. For that price, I couldn’t resist but purchase. Unfortunately all 3000 bottles sold out, and are now on secondary for £500+. So...If I may be allowed to get on my soapbox for a few sentences —- Folks—-what the hell are doing? £500 for a 3 yr old, just so one can say “I bought a first one “????? Why are we driving up prices for these 3 yr olds when when for that type of money, you can get a damn freakin good 30yr old?!?! It’s us driving it up...not the distillers...us, the consumers. These are highly illiquid ( here in the US ), and it makes no sense to collect as “investment”. We need to stop driving up prices for newbie malts just because it has a “inaugural” label. Anyway...off my soapbox. So...on to the tasting: First is the bottle design. I love the depiction of the isle seaside. Liquid color is just as eye-catching. The red wine influence shows up in that color. It’s lightly peated, so getting a gentle smoke aroma with berries. Taste—-apricots, gentle smoke, cherries. A fruity lightly smoked dram. Very nicely done, and a great start for this youngling. If you can find a pour for a reasonable price, it’s worth a try. But makes no sense to pay the secondary astronomical prices.