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| Hello, that is one in all our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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July 8, 2022
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Bruichladdich bonus, some Lochindaal
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Lochindaal is smoky Bruichladdich, produced from peated malt sourced from Bairds’ on the mainland. They began making this variant in 2007, it was supposed to take a seat between the ever-present Port Charlotte and Octomore so far as ‘ppms peat’ had been involved. These Lochindaals have now been popping out for fairly a handful of years. (Image, 2006, the Drambusters flying over Loch Indaal)
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Loch Indaal 10 yo 2007/2018 (63.3%, Blackadder, Uncooked Cask, hogshead, cask #3413, 244 bottles) 
Loch Indaal is Lochindaal all proper, however let’s do not forget that there was once, certainly, a Loch Indaal Distillery in Port Charlotte, closed in 1929 and typically additionally named Port Charlotte Distillery. This one ought to cruise at 50ppm, like. Color: straw. Nostril: nosing final night time’s barbecue and ashtrays. Very sturdy and tough, however water will assist. With water: white vinegar and lots of extra ashes, chalk, burnt plastics and quite a lot of gray pepper. This child would unblock something, together with our noses. Mouth (neat): uncooked, brutal peat that will tear your head off. Fast, water: welcome to relative civilisation. Concentrated lemon juice, ashes, gherkins, then salted limoncello and drops of tabasco. End: very lengthy, spicy, virtually on jalapenos stored in seawater. With ashes. Rounder, sweeter aftertaste. Feedback: it is not that it could make Ardbeg style like Glenkinchie, however you get the image. Seems like most of these ppms within the barley went into the spirit this time.
SGP:458 – 86 factors. |
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Lochindaal 12 yo 2007/2020 (55.5%, The Cask Whisperer, first fill bourbon barrel, cask #7003368, 269 bottles)
This from Huge Jim McEwan’s personal non-public inventory. Color: straw. Nostril: very related whisky, with an identical amount of full ashtrays, whereas many friends have been smoking cigars. Some tyres might have been burnt too. With water: similar as above, similar whisky because the Blackadder. Mouth (neat): similar whisky because the Blackadder, actually. Huge ashes, chillies, peppers and whatnot, it is good that we have got an extinguisher in Château WF’s non-public kitchen. With water: similar gherkins, ashes, samphires and capers, tabasco, Worcester sauce, sriracha and stuff… End: even some harissa, thoughts you. Lengthy punchy end. Feedback: these heavy ashes would typically glue your tongue to your palate, watch out! However I nonetheless like this loads, name me a masochist should you like.
SGP:458 – 86 factors. |
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Lochindaal 13 yo 2007/2021 (57.1%, Watt Whisky, barrel, 254 bottles) 
Color: straw. Nostril: properly, this one’s completely different, with extra outdated white wines, chalks, mashed potatoes and turnips, plasticine, cream cheese (hey Suzy! Sorry, an FZ factor), dried mushrooms, sesame oil, Maggi, soy sauce, lovage… Some pretty chemical degradation should have taken place right here, with some molecules having gone actually wild… With water: yoghurt sauce, Turkish-style, plus crushed fern leaves and new plastics, new sneakers, new iPhone (watch your battery, do not improve the OS too quick)… Mouth (neat): simply wonderful, piney, tight, extraordinarily lemony, very ashy, austere, grassy… Numerous mesclun in there, rocket salad… With water: there, extra ashes once more, additionally crunching pine needles whereas sipping Zwack Unicum. Yeah I do know Google just isn’t our pal, however what alternative do we have now? End: relatively lengthy; gentler, on tangerine liqueur and a civilised smokiness this time. Feedback: this barrel deserves a medal; I hope they have not burnt it down or shipped it to the closest backyard centre already.
SGP:567 – 89 factors. |
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Lochindaal 2007/2019 (58.1%, Malts of Scotland, cask #MoS 19016, 282 bottles)
Color: white wine. Nostril: again to ashes, ashtrays, fireplaces, barbecues and outdated chimneys. Plus some type of vinegary porridge, with slices of ripe bananas inside. With water: white vinegar, muscadet, recent paint, putty, benzine and carbolineum. Truly, some sides remind us of Port Ellen, even when this has strictly nothing to do with Port Ellen, beginning with the maltings. Mouth (neat): extraordinarily pungent and tight, with an excellent litre of concentrated lemon juice, a kilogram of salmiak and baggage and baggage of ashes. Say peat ashes from the kiln, that is extra romantic. With water: between the superb Watt and the others. Good chilli sauce infused with ashes. End: lengthy, with a little bit cardboard, in any other case salty issues and stuffs, plus tar. Feedback: we have simply downed the content material of one more ashtray and favored that have very a lot. As soon as once more, I could must go see a shrimp, any suggestions?
SGP:468 – 87 factors. |
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Proper, I’ve the sensation that we might must put an finish to this Bruichladdich insanity. We have round thirty or forty PCs but to attempt, however we’ll do this later, for ample for the day is its evil. Proper, a really final Lochindaal then, please…
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Lochindaal 10 yo 2010/2021 (53.8%, The Whisky Company, barrel, 232 bottles) 
Good, in any case these 2007s, time to attempt one other classic, they might have improved a number of issues (we do consider in progress at WF Towerz). Color: white wine. Nostril: sweeter and, seemingly, much less ashy and smoky. Bonbons, apple juice, pears and solely then the anticipated ashes. The jury’s nonetheless out… With water: porridge, oatcakes, bitter cream, yoghurt, chalk, wool, sourdough… eh? Mouth (neat): younger uncooked peat, relatively ala Loch Lomond (properly their peated variants). Very massive pepper and grasses. With water: lemon, porridge, ashes, cardboard, salted dough, cigarette ashes… End: medium, ashy. Grass juice. Feedback: effective drop, maybe with sauerkraut?
SGP: 367- 81 factors. |
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