Jump back to the Highlands with this tasty trio of flavours representing three distinct profiles designed to challenge what you think you know about regionality. Featuring a 17-year-old malt from Distillery 70 with custom-toasted cask maturation; only 4x available!
Back to the Highlands! (Bundle)
Original price was: $727.00.$679.00Current price is: $679.00. inc. GST
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Description
59.93 We’ll take a cup of kindness yet
Soaking our liquorice allsorts in black tea, we added sugar and a slice of lemon, then stirred well with a leather spoon. The palate was full of dark berries, macerated with demerara sugar, sweet cinnamon and a dollop of lemon curd. Water took the Panel on a walk through a pine forest, the trees somehow growing apricots and marmalade sandwiches. The palate by now was a cloudy lemonade, with shavings of nutmeg, slices of conference pears and freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
70.67 Through the window, brambles
The perfume of an ice cream van, an old-timey school desk and papaya-infused linseed putty greeted us on the nose. The palate was awash with cherries and berries, banana and crème brûlée topped with chestnut paste and a silky bramble jelly. Water invited further bramble to the nose, along with shoe polish, beurre noisette, dark chocolate-coated marzipan and overripe bramley apples. The palate retained its silky, mouthcoating texture, enhanced by chantilly cream, mace and yet more bramble jelly, topped with salted caramel. After 14 years in a custom-toasted, high-lactone American oak cask, we transferred this to a first fill barrique for the remainder of its maturation.
149.9 Barfly
We found the nose to be wonderfully starchy, fresh and full of fabrics, cigarette papers and barley extract before big notes of hessian, lemon rind and buttery oatcakes. It all suggested to us a big, hearty and charismatic Highland distillate at play – and we were not wrong …! With water it became a notch fatter, with rich beery and bready notes, background hints of heather honey and mead, then camphor and the funky kiss of cider apple. The neat palate displayed a wonderful muddle of sharp gooseberry acidity, celery, cooking oils, putty and lemon rinds. With time it became more medicinal, with camphor and menthol balm and some lovely waxy textures. Water brought back those starchy and cereal vibes, while there were loads more beers on display, ready salted crisps and a single, solitary pork scratching …
