House Character & Tasting Notes
This whisky is from our ‘peated’ island single malt range – double distilled using only the best malted barley available, and uniquely peat-smoked at the distillery, a traditional practice only done by a tiny handful of distilleries. The patient, yet purposeful, distillation produces a complex, layered and balanced ‘clearach’ (new-make spirit).
The whisky maturation expert, Di: Swan, described the original newmake that trickles off our copper pot stills as the best that I have tasted in any distillery at this stage, super fruity.’ This peated distillate is equally smooth and fruity, but now layered with delicate, complex, peat-smoke notes! Peat smoking contributes the truest ‘terrior’ in whisky appreciation. This expression allows you to explore how Washington peat differs from our Canadian and Scottish peats.
It was distilled using local barley peat-smoked at the distillery with Washington State peat, from just across the Canadian-U.S. border. It was then matured in, and bottled directly from, a single carefully selected European Moscatel sweet white wine barrique, thereby allowing comparison of Washington peat across our range of wine casks including red, white, Port, Oloroso, and PX, etc.
Enjoy!
Slainte
