Elements Of Islay - Peat & Bourbon

Notes by Whiskyfun.comWith these guys you dont ask questions, you just try to taste the many juices they put out, as long as you can keep up. So this is for Canada, so I suppose theyve dumped maple syrup into the bourbon barrels, have they not? Colour: white wine. Nose: sharp peat smoke at a strength that reminds me of the first Port Ellen I have bought, that Rare Malt. But why am I telling you this? Walnut skin, kelp, gasoline, hessian, kippers, concrete, raw chocolate, soy sauce (unusual in unsherried drams), lovage… Hold on there must be a secret weapon in this, and that cannot be maple syrup. With water: carbon paper, perhaps? But whos still got carbon paper? Mouth (neat): yeah roots, brine, gentian, capers. With water: mezcal? Did they add mezcal? Big salt too, olives… Better and better. Finish: long, earthy, rooty, smoky, salty. Incredible touches of tequila/mezcal. Comments: grows on you, just like… lets try to find something Canadian… Say dear Joni Mitchell? Score will be high and justified. Fantastic work.