Cask No. 29.230

Cask No. 29.230                         

The best Sunday roast

Islay

A dram to get the juices flowing with honey roast parsnips, charred pork belly and sage sausages with stuffing made from rosemary and sweet chestnuts. A distinctly aniseed note came through like liquorice sweets and fennel seeds coated in sugar that gave a deliciously sweet balance to the savoury overtones. The palate continued along a sweet path as muscovado sugar combined with treacle tart but with a burnt suggestion of chimney soot mixed with Cajun spices. Roast beef followed with a sticky balsamic glaze and horseradish sauce that prevailed onto the finish to be fused with cumin and gentle wood smoke.

Cask: Refill hogshead
Age: 17 years
Date distilled: July 1999
Alcohol: 60.1%
USA allocation: 72 bottles