Thompson Bros 8YO North Highland Blended Malt 2025 #1
The Tasting Notes
Peaches and cream and some coastal wet rocks. Some kiwi and white pepper. “Halfway between petrol and marzipan” says Josh(??). Certainly some Riesling coming through. Putty.
Very gentle texture on the palate, menacingly soft. A real thirst-quencher. Mandarin-esque citrusy note with soft jelly baby pillows of icing sugar and gelatine. Lots of minerality coming through.
Honeydew melon, waxy peaches, candle wax and slate.
Details
This year’s batch follows the same basic tenets of last year’s previous two releases with some slight tweaks;
1. Dilution, dilution, diluuution. they diluted this over the course of 47 days. From 56.8% down to 44.9%. That’s a reduction of 0.25% per day. Dilution takes place almost entirely within cask. It takes a few years to make a decent blend, why rush it in the final process?
2. Surreptitious addition of 3% Heavily Peated D**more.
Non chill filtered and natural colour
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