Big Peat Tasting Notes and Ratings.

Big Peat

Added on Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:00 PM

Bottler:

Douglas Laing

Age:	N/A	Type:	Scotch
Vintage:	N/A	Subtype:	Vatted Malt
ABV:	46.00 %	Region:	Scotland
Price:	$99	Availability:	Specialty Stores

Includes (but apparently not limited to) malts distilled at Ardbeg, Caol Ila, Bowmore, and Port Ellen. Not chillfiltered.

Note that we tasted this at the price of $42/bottle (£26.11 from the UK), which is why some of us refer to it as an economical value. In March 2010 it will hit USA shelves for, we're told, $99.99... which is unfortunate.

Member Ratings and Notes

Chris

N: Very smokey.
P: Damn. Hugely peated. Dirty and in yo' face.
F: Sweet with what seems to be a little sherry profile in the end.
A nice effort.

Dave

Clealy something intended to be over peaty with loads of iodine and medicinal notes (bandaids). Surprising little bite on the palate. Water doesn't do a whole lot to it. Bacon spices and a salty ocean on the finish. Almost made the B+ range....

Mike

N: Paint thinner, paint, sweet underneath, ground corn and millet -- oh yeah, lots of peat.

P: Salt, peat, roasted nuts. Very tasty.

F: Chalky. Bitter

Pretty good up to the finish.

Adam

Smokey nose with white chocolate, vanilla, and cinnamon initially. Then Band Aids. Palate is dominated by smoke, a chewy sort of cocoa smoke. Fruity traces of banana candy. Medium-sweet. And though I have never eaten a Band Aid, I think there's traces of whatever they might taste like in here. Finish is long, with refined sugar in the final fade. I like this, the smoke is both strong yet not too overwhelming/undrinkable. Brings me back for more. A good buy for something peated of this flavor/quality. B/B+

Big peat meet big fan.
Nose of a blazing forest fire.
Toasty taste and perfect peat.
I dig this shit...like more than a friend.

When I tasted this at the meeting I got lots of campfire embers and waves of pleasantly smokey peat. Loved it. I bought a bottle, however, and upon trying it at home was nearly overwhelmed by the medicinal aspects -- specifically, to echo Adam's notes, the plasticky/latex/band-aid taste. Weird. I still think it's a really good bottle (and well priced, at least in the UK), but the doctor's-office stuff probably keeps it from getting an A- for me.

Andy

nose: polyurethane, red hots, butterscotch. Not bad

palate: raw mossiness. Rainforesty and young. Strange fuit initially... kiwi???

Respectable but non-complex finish

B/B-

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