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| Hello, that is one in every of our (virtually) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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June 21, 2022
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Little Duos, at this time Talisker NAS plus Ultima
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We have tried relatively many Taliskers in current instances, which might solely please us. Thoughts you, we’re approaching our two hundredth T, whereas there actually aren’t many on the indies (besides maybe at DL/HL’s).
(Image, there as soon as was an excellent Scottish folk-jazz band named Talisker, Verify them out. I imagine their chief, drummer Ken Hyder, continues to be taking part in)
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Talisker ‘Storm’ (45.8%, OB, +/-2021) 
With the brand new ‘coastal’ label. In reality we’re solely utilizing these wee NASses as sparring companions, even when in my guide, ‘Storm’ is means, far more pleasant than ‘Skye’. Skye is the Achille’s heel of the vary, in my humble opinion. Color: mild gold. Nostril: you do really feel the work of contemporary or rejuvenated American oak, with this nice rounded sweetness on the nostril and lots of, many desserts and brioches and smooth breads and simply chalk, wool and dust. Some bitter almonds within the background, correct amlou (combine and thin-grind honey, almonds and argan oil, the proportions being fifty-fifty-fifty as my pricey German-born grandmother used to say). Amlou is an lively sin. Mouth: extra salty peat, seawater, a sense of plaster, pepper, lemon, flour and peppered whelks and razorfish. End: relatively lengthy, with some oak that feels a bit of bit (sawdust). Vanilla. Feedback: we’re nonetheless removed from the colourful 10 yo, however I might actually quaff this (when there is no 10). It’s a very peaty Talisker.
SGP:356 – 84 factors. |
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Talisker 1984/2021 (51.9%, OB, Prima & Ultima Third Launch, hogsheads and sherry butt, 2022) 
From 3 refill American oak hogsheads and 1 ex-sherry European oak butt. It is to be stated that every one very outdated Taliskers that we may strive throughout the final 24 months have been extraordinarily swish and transportative (copyright Ewan Gunn!), whereas final yr’s 1979 Prima & Ultima was simply completely chic (WF 93). Color: straw/white wine. Nostril: myriads of tiny white and yellow fruits, plus bandages, oyster plant, outdated cough syrup, mangos (m.a.n.g.o.s.) and distant whiffs of burning incense. It’s all the time fascinating to see how peat decomposes into fruity aromas over many many years, particularly mangos and fervour fruits, as can be skilled at a well-known distillery on the KIldalton coast of Islay (first one east of Port Ellen). With water: modifications path, goes in direction of a pharmacy. Extra bandages, extra mercurochrome, extra natural teas (those that remedy every thing)… Mouth: very excessive class. Salted and smoked nougat (who’s ever going to make that?) plus oysters and langoustines, mangos certainly, lemons, some pepper as common (very smooth, relatively Szechuan), cough syrup, crystallised angelica, touches of grapefruit… All that’s refined and virtually meditative, it certain is not a stressed, boisterous Talisker however the DNA is absolutely there. I imagine I’ve used the phrase ‘swish’ someplace… With water: it’s an outdated white Burgundy by a few of the top-tier winemakers. End: medium, delicate, complicated, elegant, relatively fascinating… I do know, awful brochure-y writing, not proud. Almond paste, marzipan, a sense of contemporary putty within the aftertaste. Linseed oil – like. Feedback: this dazzling outdated Talisker might be rather less smoky than a few of its compadres; alternatively, it jogs my memory of some very outdated official bottles (8 and 12 from the Nineteen Seventies, or the sooner NAS). Simply chic.
SGP:464 – 93 factors. |
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