Millstone 5 Years Old 2019/2024 Heavily Peated #18B070 Tulip #3 55.1% 700ml

Details：

Distillery: Zuidam Distillery

Bottler: Distillery Bottling

Bottling serie: Dutch Tulip Collection No.3

Vintage: 2019

Bottled: 2024

Stated Age: 5 Years Old

Casktype: First Fill Moscatel Sherry Butt

Casknumber: 18B070

Number of bottles: 648

Strength: 55.1%

Size: 700ml

Tasting notes：

Nose: Rose, nougat, malt, lavender honey, lychee, with hints of grilled/smoked parsley. Quite amusing. With water: softer, even more honeyed, with speculoos and notes of Trappist beer, the one whose name ends in ‘vleteren’. 

Palate: Rich, sweet, liquoricy, with strong notes of liquorice allsorts and molasses, then pepper. It almost feels like the moscatel is currently managing to overpower the peat, at least for now. There are even echoes of ‘certain Bowmores’, but this is much better, no need to worry. With water: a slightly cologne-like, fruity gin note, or perhaps Dutch jenever. I find it very good, though we’re beginning to stray quite a bit from the world of malt whiskies.

Finish: Long, with a strong comeback of moscatel and raisins, balanced by spices. Comments: doesn’t seem excessively ‘heavily peated’, but it’s very good.