Scotland
Seaweed & Aeons & Digging & Fire
Uh oh, it looks like the &Whisky folks have got their hands on the teleporter from The Fly and combined two of their terrific expressions into one! Or they've simply just blended them together to make a marvellous blended malt Scotch whisky. One or the other, probably. Anyway, Seaweed & Aeons & Christmas Cake & Cinnamon is a 50/50 blend of Islay and Speyside single malt whiskies, specifically the Seaweed & Aeons & Digging & Fire and Christmas Cake & Dark Chocolate & Medjool Dates & Cinnamon. The resulting expression offers up sublime smoky, peaty notes with brilliant bursts of dried fruit and festive spices – tremendous stuff!
Mince pies, shortbread, salted butter, sea spray, spiced hot chocolate, and roast chestnuts.
Toasty cinnamon, earthy peat smoke slowly building with a meaty hint underneath, layers of sweet dried fruit revealing themselves along the way.
Smokiness lingers, with simmering touches of cassia and clove.
The best of both worlds in one whisky!
Certainly a conversation starter. It's almost too balanced with neither the seaweed or the Christmas cake coming to the fore. The description here is accurate although I'd add it has a long allspice finish. It's almost like a mix of glenfarclas and bowmore which is no bad thing. It's pretty good value for the price but it leaves me wanting a bit more.
