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TALISKER 25 YO 2011 0,7 45,8 % SMOKE SALT

Name: TALISKER 25 YO 2011 0,7 45,8 % SMOKE SALT
SKU: 011723
Price: 2475.00 PLN
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Alcohol percentage: 45.8%

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Talisker 25 Year Old (Special Release 2011) is a single malt from the Talisker distillery on the Isle of Skye, bottled at 45.8% ABV. This instalment marked a change from earlier releases in the series: the 2011 edition was the first to be bottled from refill casks at Talisker's traditional strength of 45.8%, whereas previous vintages of the 25-year-old Talisker had been bottled at cask strength. Talisker 25 Year Old debuted in 2001 as a cask strength version at 59.9%, and for the following eight years remained at various higher strengths, until in 2011 it was lowered to the new standard of 45.8%.

Talisker is the only distillery on the Isle of Skye. It is located in Carbost on the shore of Loch Harport, overlooking the Cuillin range, and was officially founded by Hugh and Kenneth MacAskill in 1830. Today the brand belongs to the Diageo group, and the vintage described here forms part of the annual Special Releases series. The release was bottled in an edition of 6,974 bottles.

Maturation over a quarter of a century has distinctly altered the profile of the spirit. Intensely aromatic and markedly smoky in its younger form, the whisky undergoes major structural and chemical changes after several decades in cask: the wood becomes more dominant, the influence of the spirit itself weakens, and the peat mellows and blends with the other flavours instead of remaining in the foreground. As a result, Talisker's characteristic pepper is present here, but restrained – supporting the other flavours rather than leading them.

On the nose there is initially a saline note, then sweetness and spiciness, with summer wild berries, heather honey, an earthy accent and subtle peat. On the palate the whisky is spicy and drying, with a slightly waxy texture, showing liquorice, aniseed and distinct glowing peat embers, while the finish is of medium length, peppery and relatively tannic. Other notes described in this instalment include toffee, honey, pineapple and orange peel bringing sweetness, freshly cut wood, tanned leather and varnished decking as signs of longer ageing, as well as smoke that is partly maritime (TCP, iodine) and partly terrestrial, ashy yet at the same time fresh and somewhat heathery.