Description
A bright and extremely pure nose full of mineral and bath salts, seawater, grapefruit juice, lemon juice drizzled on a shucked oyster and a pristine and crisp peat smoke. Yet more brilliance from this great workhorse Islay distillery. Water brought us notes of coal tar soap, sardines drizzled with smoked olive oil and anthracite embers. The mouth opened with petrol, sweetish peat smoke, pickling brine, salty Dutch liquorice and pickled onion crisps. The heat of mustard oil and smoked sea salt in the background. Water brought subtler notes of preserved lemons in brine, black olive tapenade and iodine drops. Some greener touches such as crushed parsley and dried seaweed in the finish.