Talisker 10 Year Old is a single malt Scotch whisky from the Isle of Skye. The distillery is the only one on the island, with 5 traditional copper pot-stills. This whisky is aged for 10 years in American white oak casks that have contained bourbon. It wasawarded at the 2017 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, as well asat the World Whiskeys Awards in 2017.
Florian's tasting notes
The dress is orange-gold. Numerous fine tears slowly flow.
The nose: classic, caramelized wood, toasted, soft peat sublimated by lemon and iodine, Talisker 10 is always impeccable. Half an hour's aeration will confirm the lemon juice, salted preserved lemon, a little pear and chocolate. Smoked meat in the background.
Round and airy on the palate. Tender, gently peppery and genuinely fruity: pear and lemon. Vanilla and milk chocolate. The maritime identity shows, minerality, salt water, cigarette, a little pepper and dried herbs.
The finish is long and dry, peppery, peaty, salty and herbaceous.
"A Talisker must-have, the classic, peaty yet fresh and iodized, always balanced, surprisingly complex and long on the palate..."
Openwide Jean-Paul Jacquot
Very good!