Talisker 1975 25 Year Old
70cl / 59.9%
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One of the great Taliskers, 6000 bottles of this inaugural bottling of the now-customary Special Releases Talisker 25yo appeared in 2001. Talisker 1975 25yo picked up 90 points from whiskyfun's Serge Valentin in 2008 and remains the only officially-bottled 25yo to date with a specific vintage.
Tasting Notes (1)Facts
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Bottler
Distillery Bottling
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Age
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Vintage
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Country
Scotland
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Region
Island
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Colouring
Yes
Tasting Notes
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Tasting notes by Whiskyfun (Serge Valentin)
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Comment
The first limited official Talisker I believe. I always liked it but never took proper notes.
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Colour
Full gold.
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Nose
It seems that there’s kind of a fight between the spirit and the sherry here, at least for a while, but both mingle together pretty nicely after a few seconds, and do create an ‘extra-dimension’. Something like peated and peppered Seville oranges. After that it’s all on orange cake, vanilla fudge and chestnut honey (a very aromatic honey), with the maritime side coming out but not too much. Lovely anyway. With water: more sherry, of the beefy kind. Barbecued steak, stout beer and smoked ham as well as dried kelp. More complex indeed.
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Mouth (neat)
Ultra-big, starting more on bitter oranges and something like icing sugar than on the expected peat-pack. Something slightly ‘unbalanced’ (orangeade) but let’s try it with water. Great news, these disturbing ‘chemically orangey’ notes vanished and we’re all on dried mushrooms, Havana tobacco and dried ginger now. Something like lychees and guavas as well – yes, that was unexpected. It got truly beautiful.
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Finish
Long, balanced, sort of ‘appeased’, both fruity and peaty/peppery.
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Comments
I had this one at 88 until now but I’ll happily add two more points. SGP:536
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Score
90 points.
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