I have the following bottle of Blackadder Smoking Islay:
April 2011 at 45%.
Anyone taste this one? Anyone hazard a guess as to which distillery's nectar is inside?
For those of you unfamiliar with Blackadder, it's a bottler that filters very little if at all of the casks it buys for distribution, in an attempt to retain the historical "old school" whisky favors of centuries gone by.
The company was founded in 1995 by Robin Tucek and John Lamond, and named after historic Scottish figure Bishop John Blackadder. The company's bottlings are generally from single casks, are neither chill-filtered nor colored, and are bottled in clear glass to allow customers to see the natural color of the whisky.
Here is the Blackadder description of their Smoking Islay product:
Single Casks of fine non-filtered, non-coloured single malt whiskies are nowadays becoming rather hard to track down. Indeed, casks of some of the more celebrated and powerfully flavoured are becoming like hen’s teeth to get hold of. But when you do manage to track down one of these rare masterpieces... wow! Then you know what you have been missing.
Blackadder has managed to source a supply of just such casks which we are bottling as Blackadder Smoking Islay. But to ensure our supply we have to be a bit secretive about exactly what is contained in each cask. Perhaps that’s part of the fun in enjoying a glass or two of Smoking Islay - trying to guess what is in it! It’s certainly very smoky and peaty and with a surprisingly long, sweet smoky finish.
That's why I never buy bastard malts anymore, I simply can't sleep not knowing what malt I've been drinking. But I do love the Blackadder bottler, especially the raw cask series
I have the following bottle of Blackadder Smoking Islay:
April 2011 at 45%.
Anyone taste this one? Anyone hazard a guess as to which distillery's nectar is inside?
For those of you unfamiliar with Blackadder, it's a bottler that filters very little if at all of the casks it buys for distribution, in an attempt to retain the historical "old school" whisky favors of centuries gone by.
The company was founded in 1995 by Robin Tucek and John Lamond, and named after historic Scottish figure Bishop John Blackadder. The company's bottlings are generally from single casks, are neither chill-filtered nor colored, and are bottled in clear glass to allow customers to see the natural color of the whisky.
Here is the Blackadder description of their Smoking Islay product: Single Casks of fine non-filtered, non-coloured single malt whiskies are nowadays becoming rather hard to track down. Indeed, casks of some of the more celebrated and powerfully flavoured are becoming like hen’s teeth to get hold of. But when you do manage to track down one of these rare masterpieces... wow! Then you know what you have been missing.
Blackadder has managed to source a supply of just such casks which we are bottling as Blackadder Smoking Islay. But to ensure our supply we have to be a bit secretive about exactly what is contained in each cask. Perhaps that’s part of the fun in enjoying a glass or two of Smoking Islay - trying to guess what is in it! It’s certainly very smoky and peaty and with a surprisingly long, sweet smoky finish.