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Product Description

One of the most eagerly anticipated bottlings of the 2013 Diageo Special Releases (and in our view the best looking) is this 1985 vintage Talisker. Aged for 27 years in refill American Oak, this shows off the intensity that Talisker can offer, both in terms of flavour and complexity.

Style

5
Body
4
Richness
3
Smoke
2
Sweetness

Character

Oil
Brine
Grass
Liquorice root
Apple
Pine

Product Facts

Bottler
Distillery Bottling
Age
27 Year Old
Vintage
1985
No of Bottles
3000
Country
Scotland
Region
Island
Cask Type
Refill Bourbon
Colouring
Yes

Talisker 1985 27 Year Old

Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling

70cl / 56.1%

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£1,750

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Tasting Notes

Tasting Notes by Billy A
- Nose
  Brine, green leaves and a big meaty mouthfeel. Sea spray ozone, bung cloth, damp wood and dunnage warehouse mustiness (the good kind).
- Palate
  Cooling anis and liquorice sweetness up front, with grassy smoke and drying ashiness. It builds in intensity (to quite ridiculous levels), with dark chocolate, more sea spray and dark earthy smoke. Water takes the edge off to reveal more sweetness and fruit – apples, oranges and mango. Smoke is still ever present but doesn’t intrude, providing pine needles and a meaty, sweet cured bacon-like background.
- Finish
  Seaweed, dark fruit, chocolate and stony minerality.
- Comment
  An intense whisky that needs some taming with a drop of water, but which shows off the more intense side of Talisker that Diageo have been promoting recently. Lots of fierce sea and fruit, with dark depths underneath.
Producer's Note
- Appearance
  Rich, clear amber with notes of antique gold.
- Nose
  Absolutely classic Talisker. First soft and sweet, with shortcrust pastry and rich warm dark chocolate. Next, after the faintest mention of raspberry juice, comes waft upon waft of warming, homely smoke. Through this rises the buttery, oaty aroma of home-made chocolate chip cookies, offset by sharp mixed-berry jam and ripe red apples. There are late top notes of beeswax and polish on new shoes fresh from the box. Water makes it all sweetly smoky and liberates mysterious volcanic fumes.
- Body
  Medium. Oily.
- Palate
  Cool, salty and sweet; then warming and spicy, with notes of ginger and clove. Growing rich and malty, with helpings of plum pudding and fruitcake. Then resin-rich, dense, fragrant pine-wood smoke. Soft, smooth and bitter-sweet with water, with gently pervasive smoke.
- Finish
  Long and silky-smooth, with more of that drying, unctuous and soft dark chocolate, and chewy, with ripe plums. Late warmth, cigar-box cedar and coal smoke.