Torabhaig – Sound of Sleat – Batch Strength
If you check back to our blog on May 14th for my review of the Torabhaig distillery and tasting of the no. 3 Legacy series bottling, you will agree that this is a fine distillery with a grand selection of expressions. Visit Torabhaig for all details of their Whiskies and tours.
This is the 4th in the Legacy Series. Matured in American oak, including heavily toasted casks with no age statement. Peated to over 70 ppm.
Let’s now open the bottle and have a taste.
Nose…No hiding from the peat, crisp and pure, salty ocean spray, smouldering pine wood with delicate farmyard and bonfire inclusions, there is also a citrus burst mixing in with the peat.
Taste…I get more prominent peat, some briny and savoury notes and a delicious sticky sweetness. Blazing driftwood on a bonfire turned to charcoal and soot drifting down onto lobster pots and fishing nets, yet above the heavy fumes is a sweetness. If you really have to add water, make sure it is only a teardrop.
Finish…Wow the finish is delightfully long and peaty, long after the taste, you have a warming in the palate and your heart, great dram.
Well, well, this is a keeper, a great burst of peat that explodes onto the nose and the palate. All at Torabhaig have created quite a triumph of a cask strength peated Whisky. It is only priced with an RRP of £73.25, which I think is very good for a dram of this quality.
