Dirty, Sexy, Intense Whiskeeee!
Glen Douglas / Croftengea (Loch Lomond Distillery) — Highland
SMWS Code
122.70
Distillery
Glen Douglas / Croftengea (Loch Lomond Distillery)
ABV
58.1%
Age
9 Years
Cask
1st Fill Ex-Bouron Barrel
Distilled
March 26, 2015
Region
Highland
Flavor Profile
Heavily Peated
Category
Scotch
The whisky presents a dominant peaty character with notes of beach bonfire, tar, and soot, complemented by floral parma violets, apple sauce, vanilla, and a briny salted margarita quality. When reduced, maritime influences emerge with peppered scallops and salted prawns coming to the fore.
Neat, the palate delivers intense smoky and bittersweet notes of chilli pepper, ash, salted caramel and embers with a briny, mouth-puckering character. Diluted, it becomes softer and sweeter, revealing dark chocolate, rhubarb with ash undertones, and honey drizzled over charred fish skin.
The finish is dominated by smoky sea salt, liquorice, and blackcurrant notes, leaving a long and complex aftertaste.
The nose carried an unmistakable imprint of peat – beach bonfire, new road tar, sooty chimneys and Vatican signals – plus parma violets, apple sauce, vanilla and salted margaritas. The neat palate produced smoky, bittersweet chilli pepper, fag ash, salted caramel and embers, making this an ultra-intense, sweet, briny, mouth-puckering, dirty, sexy mouthwash of a whiskeeee! On the reduced nose incoming waves swamped our beach bonfire but we rescued the peppered scallops and salted prawns. The palate was now easier and sweeter, delivering dark chocolate, rhubarb rock dipped in ash and honey drizzled on charred mackerel skin, before a smoky finish of sea salt, liquorice and blackcurrant.
