4.334 Hillwalker’s delight

Description

We’ll be brief here. Get this bottle. Either fill a flask, or take the whole bottle on your next mountain or bush walk hike. You can thank us later. Sometimes the tasting panel absolutely nail the “where” of a whisky, and this is the ultimate hillwalker’s delight. Bright and lightly peated, it’s packed with shrubs, lavender, baked apples, damper, and that pot of billy tea from the campsite. Time and place…or as the team at Whisky & Alement recently said about our 4’s lately: farmyard fun in a glass.

A comforting welcome of chocolate coins on a Christmas tree and hillside heather greeted us as we sipped hot chocolate laden with smoky whisky sitting in a worn leather armchair. Heather was joined by lavender on the palate with nutty aromas merging with baked apples and coal dust. Adding water brought peaty notes to the fore, alongside dried coconut, coriander and cardamom. Creamy flavours of pink peppercorn sauce now coated stewed mango and melon while violets blessed the sweet finish. At 8 years of age, we combined selected casks from the same distillery. We then returned the single malt into a variety of different casks to develop further. This is one of those casks.