Thanks again to @cascode for this dram. Here we have my second entry for Glasgow distillery this time, their peated expression. I am excited by this pour as Glasgow have focused on using heather-rich highland peat (think Highland Park), and partnered this up with ex-PX sherry casks (hello again Highland Park play book). Maturation was in virgin white oak, with PX hosting the finishing. Going to take a second to appreciate how thick, dark, and dense this liquid is in the glass. Wow, hopefully this is a sign of richness and depth to come… N: Warming and gentle with delicate floral smoke with a sweet preserved fruit and resin like quality. I don’t find much more than that. I think an overriding denseness to the peat-smoke profile is a little inhibiting, not bad; but not great either. P: Bright, a little prickly, but light and interesting textural arrival. The peat is dominant to me with a slightly rubbery and ashy feel to it rather than a delicate floral or perfume character that I expected. Fresh orange juice brings some refreshing brightness to a plump body of dark dried fruits. F: Medium-short. Palate feeds directly into the finish, smoke turns to ash with a slightly emergent grainy texture. And then poof. Gone. I’m a little disappointed. Perhaps it is unfair to compare to Highland Park, but sherry casks and heathery peat almost demand it, and sadly the comparison for me is that this Glasgow lacks the delicate nuance of a HP malt. i think I can take statements I made about the 1770 Original verbatim and repeat them here: a simple 1-2 delivery that doesn’t get going much past that initial contact. The real shame is that the florals and perfume of supposedly highlands heathery peat just haven’t been unlocked and no complexity has been afforded by the sherry casking, let alone any soft-vanilla tones from the virgin wood finish. The appearance of a deep, dark, luscious dram fails to follow through. Nothing inherently bad or off-putting, but not something I’ll be seeking out. Distiller whisky taste #161 [Price is for 500 ml] [Pictured here with a 1.09 billion year old eudialyte bearing nepheline syenite from the Kipawa alkaline igneous complex in western Quebec, Canada. This pretty lump has pink eudialyte, black arfvedsonite/katophorite, and whitish feldspars. A rough and less pretty, but equally striking counterpart to the equivalent rock pictured with the Glasgow 1770 Original, just like this peated dram].