Talisker 16 Year Old 1990 Tactical Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask
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Review by @markjedi1
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This Talisker was bottled by Douglas Laing under the Old Malt Cask label in their special Director’s Tactical Selection, at what they call the golden drinking strength, i.e. 50% ABV. The distillate came from the stills in November 1990 and was bottled in August 2007 after 16 years of maturation. There are 317 bottles to be precise. It is a very pale dram.
The nose is honeysweet with citrus and banana, drenched in honey, upholstered with light vanilla and papper. Not quite the pepper bomb I had expected, but beautiful nonetheless. Slightly mineraly and somewhat salty. The smoke is hard to find on the nose. Soft peat.
On the palate, it remains very sweet, but now the peat and salt rush forward and make the fruit pale in comparison. Milk chocolate and white pepper precede the citrus, that is now even more prominent than on the nose, but cannot compete with the salt taste. Grand.
The finish is fairly long and mildly smoky with a bittersweet terminus.
What a surprisingly good Talisker! Around 150 EUR which is not exactly cheap for a 16 Year Old malt. Thanks, Jan, for the sample!
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