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Talisker 2006 Distillers Edition

Crack the Skye

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@cricklewoodReview by @cricklewood

29th Mar 2018

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Talisker 2006 Distillers Edition
  • Nose
    22
  • Taste
    23
  • Finish
    20
  • Balance
    21
  • Overall
    86

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I've been been backed up on my reviews so there's no time like the present to get started.

I'm a big fan of Talisker and would consider the 10 year old to be among my favourite whiskys. So when the occasion to purchase this DE version came up I didn't hesitate.

Nose: Sweet & smoky, vanilla, kelp, caraway and a touch of Vicks vaporub. Rib sauce, lemon peel and cigarettes.

Palate: Astringent, black pepper, vanilla flavoured cigars. Soaked prunes, liquorice root, alternates between phenolic and sweet.

Finish: fruitcake, parrafin, salt and lingering smoke. The body is a bit thin but it carries the finish for some time.

I really liked this right out of the gate but felt the sherry lost some of it's brightness after a few weeks. Now that the botttle is in it's last third, it's gotten so good.

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4 comments

@Hewie
Hewie commented

thanks for the review. I also love the 10 and enjoyed the DE too - although I think I still prefer the standard 10. I found by the time I got to the last 1/4 after nearly a year the T10 was just fantastic (as you noted here with the DE). Looking forward to the other reviews you're about to do to clear the backlog!

6 years ago 0

@cricklewood
cricklewood commented

@Hewie I feel the same way, the DE is good but I think I prefer the raw nature of the T10 also the 40$ premium of the DE (at least in my neck of the woods) means I won't replace it unless I find it at a great price.

Now the 57N is one I would be willing to shell out for, I had a taste courtesy of @Nozinan and it definitely goes to 11

6 years ago 1Who liked this?

@Victor
Victor commented

I've tasted, I think, three Talisker DEs. They were, I think, '92, '93, and '96. I did not find them very close to one another in style. It was the quality of the integration of the wine cask flavours which varied among the three. In one of them, I think it was the '96, the integration was very well done, and the effect was excellent. In another, the '92, I think, the wine cask integration was good, but not outstanding. In the third, '93 I believe, the sherry influence just sat by itself on the side and did not integrate. I owned a three-pack 200 ml bottle of that '93 Talisker DE, and I would not have been happy to have bought a full-sized bottle of that one. My point? Much as I like Talisker in general, I personally would wait for reviews or my own tasting experience before buying a full-sized bottle of any Talisker DE. From most of what I see in the experience of others, that experience of mine was more of an outlier. I hope so, but once burned twice shy. A 'meh' bottle of whisky tends to work as a powerful vaccination against future purchases of that same-named label, no matter how uncommon that experience was with that specific whisky-label. A bad bottle leaves a psychological scar.

6 years ago 0

@cricklewood
cricklewood commented

@Victor I hear you, the inconsistency of batches can be a frustrating experience, especially if considering the rising prices of whisky, it's the ugly truth they rarely want to talk about in the industry.

I certainly think twice when faced with a bottle that failed to wow me, yet I might be less hesitant if it's something I love like Talisker 10 or Aberlour A'bunadh

6 years ago 0