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29.86 When the locket bursts

Cask No. 29.86

The nose was reminiscent of barbecued bananas with chocolate sauce by a dusty coal cellar. Medicinal fruit sweets came next with cherry tunes and menthol-eucalyptus lozenges; smoked sandalwood and honey glazed gammon. The unreduced palate was immense with a burst of honey and lemon lockets, and baked apple, becoming savoury with smoked German sausage, tarragon, dill and bean curd. The reduced nose produced saddlesoap, hot candlewax and iodine tincture. Then, it became dry with hessian sack, scorched heather and dog hair. The reduced palate was of charred banana skin and mild curry powder with lemon soap and acacia honey on charred prawns. The distillery name is Gaelic for the ‘beautiful hollow by the broad bay’.

Drinking tip: To warm you up at a beach barbecue.

Date Distilled: November, 1993 Colour: Copper gold Age: 16 years Cask Type: Refill ex-bourbon hogshead Whisky Region: Islay