Orkney 2011 13 Year Old, Thompson Bros
The Tasting Notes
Like sticking your head into a recently disgorged grist bin full of pineapple cubes, lime zest, and kiwi fruits! There are plenty of soft fruits like apricot and nectarine. The peat is subtle but well integrated. Intense HP distillate remains powerful.
Olive oil drizzled warm bread (made from Orkney Bere of course!), Mint jelly, Eucalyptus, old copper coins. The peat grows along with more fruits – nectarine & white grape. Some herbal notes, rosemary & spearmint.
Still huge and powerful. HP is such an intense distillate and one of the best in Scotland!
Details
A lightly peated Orkney Malt Whisky Thompson Bros bought at 10 years old. The whisky had spent all of its life in a refill hogshead, although it was powerful and distillate-driven, they felt they could bring something else to the spirit without battering it with a heavy-handed cask finish. They reracked the whisky into a very tired old cognac barrique which had been used to mature some 1993 Grande Champagne Cognac they bottled as ‘early-landed late-bottled’ Brandy.
Matured for 30 months in an ex-cognac barrique.
One of only 308 bottles produced.
Non-chill filtered and natural colour. This spirit may haze at low temperatures and under dilution.
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