Bottle Details
SMWS Code
135.70
Distillery
Loch Lomond (Loch Lomond Distillery)
ABV
61.4%
Age
10 Years
Cask
First Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel
Distilled
March 17, 2015
Region
Highland
Flavor Profile
Peated
Category
Scotch
The whisky opens with honey and maple syrup sweetness, gradually revealing earthy warehouse notes, dunnage, sweet smoke, and medicinal hints. When reduced, it provokes evocative scents of singed heather, distant campfires, new tennis balls, brine, and petrichor.
The palate displays a creamy texture with a sweet and savoury combination of maple-cured bacon and grilled pineapple. Upon reduction, it becomes sweeter and spicier, with suggestions of salted caramel, smoked chicken, and medicinal peat.
The finish is drying, woven through with subtle threads of smoke and exotic spices that linger on the palate.
The nose initially displayed honey and maple syrup sweetness, before gradually discovering earthier notes (dunnage warehouse, bung cloth, sphagnum moss), sweet smoke and medicinal hints (particularly bandages). We enjoyed the palate’s creamy texture and the sweet, savoury combination of maple-cured bacon and grilled pineapple; then a drying finish woven through with subtle threads of smoke and exotic spices. The reduced nose provoked astonishingly evocative scents of singed heather and distant campfires, new tennis balls, brine and petrichor (recent rain on dry ground). We thought the palate now became sweeter and spicier, with suggestions of salted caramel, smoked chicken and medicinal peat.