This right here is a 10-year-old single malt from an undisclosed distillery on Islay, with 25% of it having been finished in first-fill oloroso sherry casks, and bestowed the decidedly descriptive name Seaweed & Aeons & Digging & Fire. If those four words (and three ampersands) aren't quite enough of an explanation of what this expression is all about, here are a few more: stripped-back, smoky, complex, a bit sherried, balanced, coastal. Yeah, that should do it. Great for people who love uncompromising Islay whisky and sans-serif fonts.
Rich, powerful sherry with a well-integrated core of peat. Solid.
Well-balanced but extremely forceful on delivery. The sherry makes itself known in a really good way.
Red apple sweetness gives way to oaken-vanilla goodness and fades elegantly into the embers of a chargrilled well-aged steak.
A thoroughly impressive dram. One would be forgiven for mistaking it for an OB with another 5 years of age on it.
An undisclosed distillery? Is that because they don’t want their name tarnished by association with this fake smoke swill?
Bought this for my dad for Father’s Day.....he is a total whisky nut and can pretty much tell which whisky he’s drinking without having seen the dram being poured (it was a game we played when we ran a pub together and had over 100 malts on the top shelf) #skills, so it was very exciting to find a brand new dram for him. He’s just text to say it’s absolutely cracking, so thanks MoM for this bottle of awesomeness!
I don't get the high praise for this. There's definitely a depth to the whisky and hi t has a nice late fiery hit of peat smoke. But the arrival is quite weak and it has a bit of a sweet but mild middle taste before that rising fire at the end. Certainly unique but really lack up front punch that you want in whisky. I think the bottling at only 40% really harms this whisky and takes drama out of it.
What a find, lovely smokiness that lingers, excellent value.
A really drinkable dram, not as smokey as I was expecting but a refined subtle whisky that is smooth balanced and easily drinkable. Really good social sipping whisky
