It's the Campbeltown Malts Festival 2020 bottling from Glen Scotia. The peated single malt was distilled in 2006, and was initially matured in first-fill barrels before being transferred to American oak hogshead casks seasoned with tawny Port. Eventually it was bottled at 14 years old at cask strength, weighing in at 52.8% ABV.
Notes of heather honey, a sea breeze and hedgerow berries.
Silky honey returns, with raspberry, peaches and cream, apple crumble and vanilla custard.
Peat smoke lingers, with forest fruits and baking spices.
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Stunning!!
Amazing bottle, I loved it. Not too sweet at all, I agree very much with the notes written, even before it went up here in MOM i said it tasted like peaches and some kind of vannilla cream. Opens amazing in the glass, I preffered it without any water added. Amazing vfm IMHO
On the nose you get that distinct sea spray and peat character iconic to Glen Scotia, then comes the fruit, there are berries, vanilla and a cream note. On the palate it’s the glen scotia character that shows up first followed by a gentle honey sweet arrival of fruits of the forest with vanilla cream, we are talking black currant, apple, raspberry and cranberry gently smoked with that peat that runs through to a finish that has a balanced spice and seems to go on and on. It is glorious and when compared to the 2018 Ruby Port release the colour is a darker red-pink if that luscious tawny port.
