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Big Peat Christmas Edition, a peated Islay blended malt from Douglas Laing at 54.2%. Heavily peated, showing refined peat, salt and citrus. A graceful, smoky Islay malt. Mature, briny and gracefully smoky. Rare, refined and finite for good. A piece of Islay whisky history. A bold Islay blended malt carrying a thread of legendary Port Ellen.
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Big Peat Christmas Edition, a Douglas Laing vatting of Islay malts, holds Port Ellen among its components. It is built to show the big, smoky heart of Islay in a single glass. It carries a piece of closed distillery Islay in every bottle.
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 hogshead held it, the soft oak letting the Islay character lead. Refill ex-Bourbon oak, having given its sharpest notes to an earlier fill, lets the peat and the spirit lead. Vattings like this let the smoky malts of Islay shine together. 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.
At its natural 54.2% it is rich and briny. A smoky, mineral note carries maritime salt and citrus, with a whisper of coconut from the cask. Beneath the peat run lemon, wax and a mineral note. Salt, smoke and wax draw out the close. A smoky, characterful blended malt built on Islay peat and Port Ellen.
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