Okay friends and
followers! It’s finally time for me to try the coming release from ’Svenska Eldvatten’ (Swedish Firewaters)! Once again Peter and Tommy were very
nice and gave me yet another sample, this time I met them when working for
Laphroaig during the Gothenburg Beer and Whiskyfestival.
This whisky,
which will be released in Sweden tomorrow at the state monopoly, is very
special: It’s a ”West Islay” Heavily Peated Single Malt Single Rhum Cask. Hmm,
I wonder… what might ”West Islay” be? And Heavily Peated?, hmm…. ; ) Anyway this is a 10yo and this is fully-matured in a rhum cask. The number of
the cask is 882 and it gave 120 bottles and landed at 60,8% ABV! Sounds exciting
right?! Let’s try!
Nose:
Very peaty! and
smoky actually (which is something I rarely think about peated whiskies)!
Vanilla is also very evident, but of the peat and the vanilla the peat is definitely
in the foreground. Burnt wood mixed with rhum-raisin-vanilla-ice cream comes
just after that when I nose closer to the glass… We also have whiffs of citrus,
not really clementine but rather satsumas-peel. It does not seem that strong on
the alcohol but 60,8% ABV should be a real punch on the palate, when I get
there that is, cause I could nose this one forever J Actually I’d say, when I think about it that there is a
real struggle going on here between the peat and the rhum. I haven’t really
tried any fully rhum-matured peated whiskies so this will be exciting, ok,
let’s go!
Palate:
Serioulsly guys,
this is so d*mn good!! A very salty peat actually, but still soft if you know
what I mean, soft vanilla almost vanilla and whipped cream… I would say that
the rhum-influence in this whisky really takes it’s time to appear (which in my
opinion can be a quite good thing). The mouthfeel really makes my mouth water
A LOT for the, say, first five to six seconds but then it gets dry quite fast,
not overly dry. On the aftertaste, which builds up slowly we have rhum-soaked
raisins and a quite burnt peaty-ness. Waiting it out the peat is there the
longest. Very special this one!
A big thanks
once again to Peter and Tommy for the sample! Their whiskies and rhums are
available at Master of Malt.
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