Finglassie 2017 RBTW (Rest & be Thankful Whisky Company)

Finglassie is the name InchDairnie uses for the peated single malt it releases through independent bottlers, the smoky counterpart to its unpeated Strathenry trade malt. Rest & be Thankful Whisky Company bottled this 2017 vintage at 5 years old. The outturn was 4998 bottles, released for Europe.

The Fife distillery runs one of only two mash filters in Scotch production and distils through a custom Lomond Hill still, a pot still with six bubble cap plates in its neck for high reflux. This is the distillery's peated spirit, so smoke sits over the young Fife malt. Matured in an Oloroso sherry cask.

Bottled at 46%, the Oloroso wood gives dried fruit, with melanoidins reading as fig and raisin and tannins adding a walnut dryness. Guaiacol and related phenols carry the smoke, with the medicinal edge that peated Lowland spirit shows young. Recorded bottle notes run to smoke, fresh orchard fruit, citrus, green, leafy notes, leather and an oily texture. At this age the malt is young but the smoke gives it weight, into a long, drying finish.