135.69 Potting shed cuisine

Description

From the team

Distillery 135 has to be one of the most versatile malts out there. Peated, unpeated, young, old, short or long ferments. We love the team at this Highland site, and we love the diversity of flavour we see from them. Cask 135.69 is older, peated, and has this lovely earthy potting shed style of whisky going in the glass: rich soils, basil leaf, delightful sipper. If you think you know delicate peated whisky that’s still cask strength, think again. Absolute sleeper.

Tasting Panel notes

In a melange of cookery and horticulture, we found cornbread, barbecue burnt ends and lemons wrapped in a bitumen tortilla, served in a greenhouse full of roses and cut peat. Venison grill steaks followed on the palate, with green peppercorns, figs and cranberries in clarified butter. Water introduced smoked cloudberries, fennel and pine to the nose, while the palate offered birch sap, orange and wintergreen mint to finish. After 16 years in an ex-bourbon barrel, we transferred this to a first fill heavily toasted, medium charred barrel for the remainder of its maturation.