Product Description
The Winter Series returns this year capturing the magic of the season in four single malt bottlings. From the crisp chill in the air at Hallowe’en to the joyful celebrations of Christmas, Hogmanay and Burns Night, we’ve showing off the season in all its flavours.
The first Winter Series bottling, Spirit of Hallowe’en, offers playful mischief and bold autumnal flavours from this member-favourite Islay distillery.
Read more about The Winter Series here.
Tasting Notes
The nose delivered a hearty warm-up of pastrami, mustard and lightly smoked paprika, with a hint of barbecued cod and wild thyme. There was a mentholic freshness, reminiscent of a sports massage, alongside smoked cheese and fennel sausage, the scents working up like a pre-game ritual. The palate unfolded with menthol and eucalyptus lozenges and rosemary honey oozing over chalk dust and ash. With water, eucalyptus muscle rub, waxed lemons and black-buttered chestnuts tussled in midfield before creamy, sweet clam broth, liquorice root and bonfire mussels soothed our post-match recovery session. After spending eight years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, this was transferred to a second fill American oak Pedro Ximénez hogshead for the reminder of its maturation.
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