9.227 Chill-time

Description

You know what’s fashionable? I mean, I certainly don’t. Not really anyway. Everyone loves a big sherry bomb. Everyone wants big peat monsters. Code hunters seek out certain numbers with ferocious voracity. Do you know what’s not fashionable? A 14-year-aged, 1st
fill, Juicy Oak & Vanilla, balanced and delightful whisky from Distillery 9. Tropical smoothies, coconut yoghurt, whipped cream and biscotti. Take a bottle of 9.227 to your Sunday lunch. Take a quiet moment out with this delightful underdog that isn’t very sexy, isn’t a peat bomb, isn’t a superstar distillery. It’s just damn good whisky. Nuff said.

We started with a little ray of sunshine; a tropical smoothie packed with mango, pineapple, passion fruit and creamy coconut yoghurt, we might even have added a little ginger and turmeric. Smooth, thick and rich on the palate neat like an Italian custard dessert called Zabaglione made with egg yolks, sugar, cinnamon, grated lemon peel and Marsala wine, served with whipped cream and a biscotti. Water added a walnut whip, black currant coulis, caramel popcorn and clotted cream fudge on the nose. The taste was a sip of banana daquiri: light rum, lime juice, banana liqueur and sugar syrup all in a chilled cocktail glass.