Talisker 8 Years Old Diageo Special Releases 2021 59.7% NV

e

Distillerie	Talisker
Embouteilleur	OB
Serie	Diageo Special Releases 2021
Mise en bouteille pour
Date de distillation	Not Specified
Date de mise en bouteille	2021
Pays	Écosse
Région	Isle of Skye
Age	8
Cask Type	American & European Oak Refill Casks
Numéro de fût
Alcohol %	59.7%
Volume
État	dans son emballage d'origine
Étiquette	Parfait
Stock	19

Avis professionnels

Serge Valentin (91)

Colour: very pale white wine. Nose: it doesn't feel like they've been using rum wood, which they did last year. We're rather experiencing an extremely narrow style, in the best sense of that expression — as some great Chablis can be narrow.
A lot of mercurochrome, seawater, oysters, crushed chalk and just a load of peat. I think I had already wondered if they weren't Islayising Talisker... With water: oh this wonderful brine! Plus olive oil and a drop of mezcal. Even mezcal cannot beat this. Mouth (neat) : a total blade, sharp like a katana (whatever) and with a lot of lemon juice, brine and just 'peat'. A citrusy fruitiness too after a few seconds, perhaps citrons? Again, very simple, almost abstract, and just terrific. With water: 4 of 4 (nose neat, nose diluted, palate neat, palate diluted) Stunning purity, I suppose the only thing you could do to further improve this make is wait. All the rest is total absolut ganz perfect. Finish: long, well, not that long actually but sublimely pure. Comments: a diamond distillate, this is the perfect cut, a kind of grail that only time could further polish (you're rambling on, S) Just add time... By the way I couldn't find any vintage but there could be one, I shall amend accordingly.

Gal Granov (86)

Nose: A nice stride on the beach with wood fires nearby, or as we often call those: "Coastal" – not something you don't come to expect from a Talisker, right? It's got a briny touch to it, with earthy peat and soot, as well as remnants of ash, and a sprinkle of black pepper – Talisker DNA all over. Quite young and 'bare' no sherry and not a lot of wood, but enough to balance the peat/soot/ earth with vanilla biscuits, and hints of icing sugar along with minerality and damp oak. Further nosing reveals a fruity touch as well, that hides behind the earthy peat and Seabreeze.
Palate: Quite an entry! I am getting a lot of sweet cotton candy, then immediately it becomes smoky and spicy with vegetal notes, licorice, and aniseed, salty chocolate, and more earth, soot with a leafy/green touch, there's also some saltiness and maritime / minerality but on the backdrop.

Finish: coastal, with Seabreeze, distant smoke, and earthy peat goes on a fairly long time.
A nice young-ish, peaty, and brute Talisker, even if not ultra complex, but at 8 years old, this delivers what it promises to be, the 2nd peatiest of the bunch, and certainly a nice example of feisty Talisker pepper earth and peat alongside maritime notes.

BOW (91)