A beautiful example of the kind of delicate, grassy peated whisky you can find in Speyside. Fumare is the Latin for 'Smoky' and also Gaelic for 'Peat' because the Speyside Distillery doesn't really mess around when it comes to naming its releases. This cask strength edition was matured in ex-bourbon barrels to preserve all that smoky goodness.
Subtly smoky, shrouding honeyed nuts, stewed orchard fruit, and vanilla custard.
Toffee apple, malt cereal, and toasty oak join the lush forest fruit sweetness and grassy peat.
Slightly burnt brown sugar and smoked herbs.
This incredibly pale looking whisky is amazingly FULL of intense flavours. You expect it to be fairly easy going and it’s abv might just hint that it’s a “sipper”! Don’t be fooled though, each dram WILL lead to another.
Let's be right, you won't be getting the smoke blast of the Islay big beasts here, but hold on a minute. There definitely is smoke, and it mingles well with more typical Speyside notes. A very small splash of water opens it up and encourages a slight haze. To me this is an old fashioned kind of dram. Given its strength and that it is NAS there is a bit of a bite to it but for me that's all to the good. It reminds me a bit of fondly remembered Ledaig NAS. A damned fine dram.
I was given a quarter of this as a friend of a friend gave it away and I was blown away. Was slightly worried with only 1,500 made.
Tried this at the recent Edinburgh Whisky Stramash and without a for it was the start of the show for me. Treated myself to a Boris and it does not disappoint. Smoky peat (but not overpowering) with treacle and vanilla notes). Try it!
Really lovely - marries all the sweetness and fruit of a solid Speyside with rich but not overwhelming smoke. Way too easy to drink.
