Big Peat Christmas Edition

Small Batch

700ml / 57.8%

Blended Malt

$452

Big Peat Christmas Edition, Douglas Laing’s smoky Islay vatting at 57.8%, carrying Port Ellen. Heavily peated, showing briny smoke and crystallised lemon. Mature peat at its most elegant. Mature, briny and gracefully smoky. Rare, refined and finite for good. A smoky, characterful blended malt built on Islay peat and Port Ellen.

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SKU PEL041 Categories Islay, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Douglas Laing

Description

Big Peat Christmas Edition is Big Peat, the Douglas Laing Islay blended malt that carries Port Ellen. Big Peat folds the island's peated malts into one assertive dram. Each release is a fresh vatting of Islay's smoky malts.

Blended malt means malt from more than one distillery, in this case Islay's smoky houses. Built without an age statement, Port Ellen adds its elegant, citric smoke to the mix. An ex-Bourbon cask shaped it, soft refill oak that lets the smoke lead. Coastal warehousing lends a saline, maritime note as the spirit breathes by the sea. The peat is the point here, drawn from Islay's smoky distilleries. Bottlings carrying closed distillery malt grow rarer each year. Douglas Laing has long specialised in the malts of the islands. A dram built for those who take their whisky smoky. The Port Ellen within ties it to one of Islay's lost legends.

At its natural 57.8% it is rich and briny. A coastal peat smoke carries maritime salt and citrus, with soft vanilla and a touch of coconut from the cask. Beneath the peat run lemon, wax and a mineral note. It closes long, smoky and maritime. A rich Islay dram threaded with rare Port Ellen.