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Big Peat Christmas Edition, a Big Peat vatting of Islay malts at 53.1% with Port Ellen inside. Heavily peated, showing coastal peat smoke, lemon and sea brine. Structured smoke with a citric lift. The smoke softened by long years in oak. A bottle chased by Islay collectors. A rich Islay dram threaded with rare 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.
It brings together single malts from across Islay rather than one distillery alone. Built without an age statement, Port Ellen lends the vatting a graceful, maritime smoke. A refill American oak cask held it, keeping the distillery character to the fore. Refill wood flatters Port Ellen, holding back the vanilla so the smoke and citrus speak. 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.
At cask strength 53.1% it is muscular. Lemon zest and coastal salt ride on a soft maritime smoke, with a touch of vanilla and cream from the wood. It is structured and a touch austere, the refill oak keeping it lean. A waxy, gently medicinal finish lingers long. An assertive, coastal blended malt touched by Port Ellen smoke.
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