Medium Smoked. Smoked Single Malt Whisky

91,5/100 Points, Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2024
94/100 Points, Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2017

The Medium Smoked Whisky is made from barley malt, dried over beech wood.

What we taste:
It has a light pleasant smoky bouquet, with malty roast, vanilla aromas and charcoal. Allow the whisky to breathe and the vanilla scent intensifies. On the palate gentle smoke builds up, which is accompanied by coffee-bean, plain chocolate accents and sweet fruits. Long finish of dried fruits and smoke. As the taste lengthens and deepens the smokier it becomes.

What the experts say:

Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2024. Brilliant 91,5/100

"Nose (23.5/25) this is as delicate and layered as the Burn Out is uncompromisingly one-dimensional and in your face. The smoke this time lacks acidity and plays the role of chaperone to the gentle vanillas rather than a guard determined to keep them out...; taste (23/25) if this was a plane landing, you wouldn't feel the touch down, let alone a bounce. Effortlessly delicate despite the width of the spectrum of smoke, which ranges from dry and precise, to silky sweet and anchoring. There is even a curious, palate-cleansing citrus note blowing through, before the creamy hickory arrives; finish (22/25) a very quiet finale. The oils have congregated now. A light milky praline note is caressed by the remaining genteel smoke...; overall balance (23/25) I nosed this side by side Burn Out to gauge the variance in smoking levels. By comparison this is slightly nearer light than medium but there are still phenols enough to ensure that weight and depth are maintained throughout. What you don't get is the almost insane variance between sweet and dry, the sugars here much more of a muscovado style, this generating a light fruity note through the piece. Delightful."

Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2017. Superstar whiskies that give us all a reason to live. 94/100 Punkte
"Arbroath Smokies at first, but as the glass warms, the sugars get a little more crisp. Except the acrid house style is a unique signature, here with a light thread of marmalade;" "the citrus arrives a step ahead of the smoke , though this appears diluted down by a fabulously malty, ulmo honey sweetness – so delicious...;" Finish: "spices arrive with grace and interweave with the smoked vanilla rather charmingly;"
[...] there is no doubt that this distillery knows exactly how to make smoky whisky, because this is a very different, more subtle, style to their peated efforts." Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2017, p. 314; Categoriy: Superstar whisky

Whisky Advocate „The key smoke characteristic here comes from kilning the barley over beech wood. The resultant aromas conjure up sweet mash, charcoal sticks, slabs of fish from the smoker, and dilapidated casks warming in the sunshine by the shoreline. It's been matured for over 3 years in French Limousin oak, and the taste runs sweet with peach, nectarine, and melon, through Seville orange, to mixed peel and taffy candy. A finish of dried fruits, with lingering smoke in the tail."
(Fall 2014) Reviewed by: Jonny McCormick. Whisky Advocate.

Best of Seaside
Best local Whisky, Seaside Whisky Festival 2017, Bregenz

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