Port Askaig Cask Strength 2023 Batch 1 Elixir Distillers 59.4% 700ml

Details：

Distillery: Port Askaig

Bottler: Elixir Distillers (ElD)

Bottling serie: Small Batch

Vintage: /

Bottled: 2023

Stated Age: /

Casktype: 25% Toasted Bourben
                 75% American Oak

Casknumber: Batch 1

Number of bottles: /

Strength: 59.4% 

Size: 700ml

Tasting notes：

Nose

Cooling smoke; outdoor woodsmoke, a little ash too. Biscuits and vanilla; custard creams. A pickled onion crisp packet, melted butter, granny smith apples, crisp white wine, chopped chillies and cracked peppercorns. That butter is salted.

Palate

Oh! Lovely thick arrival before a rinsing of hot chillies and ginger in brine. Then the sweetness; creamy vanilla custard and sugary lemons, ginger snaps and caramelised biscuit, sliced baked apples, a lick of cinnamon, more ginger, very spiced. Time and additional sips are required to tame the heat.

Water, half a teaspoon, settles it a bit but sharpens things too.The cold smoke from the nose is rendered warm and enveloping. If high-proof bourbon brings a Kentucky Hug then this brings a bright yellow outdoor Islay squeeze. It’s reminiscent of Lagavulin 12 and that’s compliment enough.