Is there room for a new player on the field?
In my opinion – always, and if they start out playing the good taste game they might just stay in the game for a long time.
This is how I feel about The new kid on Isle of Skye – Torabhaig.
Isle of Skye now have two distilleries operating and sending whisky on the marked. Talisker which has a special place in my heart and now Torabhaig which has made a pretty good impression with this first release.
Torabhaig 2017 The Inaugural Release is an NAS whisky, but if the distillery started distilling in 2017 and bottled late 2020 or start 2021 it will be just 3 years old. Some times peated whisky at the age of 3 can give you at hard kick in the nose and mouth but you don’t feel that with this one. It is pleasant and easy to drink and I think many would guess it to be older. You are not flipped over by complexity but you get at tasty well balanced whisky that is easy to fall in love with.
The peat level, the PPM is measured two time in this one and it is pretty cool that Torabhaig has done that. Not many go through the trouble find the actual ppm in the bottle. Usually we only get the ppm measured in the malt after it has been dried and this will show a higher ppm than the finished whisky that you will savour.
The ppm in The Inaugural Release is about 55-60 measured in the grain and ending up at 16 ppm in the bottle.
The transparentsy from Torabhaig distillery about what is used to make the whisky is high, so you are informed on the packaging that the whisky is made with Concerto malted barley and fermented with Pinnacle MG+ yeast. So if you want to be a little geeky you can be that here ๐
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๐ฟ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ง๐ฎ: Torabhaig
๐๐๐ข๐: 2017 – The Inaugural Release
๐๐๐ง๐๐๐จ: The Legacy Series
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐: Single Malt
๐พ๐ค๐ช๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ง๐ฎ: Scotland – Isle of Skye
๐ผ๐๐: 3 Years old
๐ผ๐ก๐ %: 46
๐พ๐๐จ๐ ๐จ: First-Fill Bourbon Barrels
๐ฝ๐๐ฉ๐๐: One (100 barrels)
๐พ๐๐๐ก๐ก-๐๐๐ก๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐: No
๐๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐๐ก ๐๐ค๐ก๐ค๐ช๐ง: Yes
๐ฟ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ฃ: Early 2017
๐ฝ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ฃ: Late 2020 maybe start 2021
๐๐๐ข๐๐ฉ๐๐: about 32000 bottles
๐๐๐ก๐๐๐จ๐๐: February 2021
๐๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ฃ๐๐: about โฌ 75 (in Denmark)
๐ ผ๐ ๐๐ ฐ๐๐๐ ธ๐ ฝ๐ ถ ๐ ฝ๐ พ๐๐ ด๐
๐: Pleasant peat smoke, honey sweetness, citrus, soft wood notes, wet forest floor, some medicinal notes, brine, vanilla, fresh red apples
๐: A light creamy mouthfeel, slight buttery, salty, the smoke from burning fresh green foliage, some floral notes, apples, vanilla
๐: Medium long, pleasant smoke notes, the salty notes, some wood notes, smoked paprika
For a little conclusion I will say this is a pretty good first release and I am looking forward to see what this will grow to be. I think, in time, some of the more known peated brands will have to step up their game if they don’t want to end up on the replacement bench.
๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐ก ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐๐จ๐ ๐ฎ: ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ (4/6)
๐ ผ๐ ๐๐ ฐ๐๐ ธ๐ ฝ๐ ถ ๐๐๐๐๐ ด๐ ผ
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ – ๐๐ญ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐ค๐ง๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ง๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐๐๐จ๐ ๐ฎ – ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐๐ก๐ฎ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ง
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ – ๐ผ ๐๐๐๐ช๐ฉ๐๐๐ช๐ก ๐ฌ๐๐๐จ๐ ๐ฎ – ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ง ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ก๐
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ – ๐๐ค๐ค๐ – ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐๐ฎ ๐๐ง๐๐ข
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ – ๐๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐๐ – ๐’๐ก๐ก ๐๐ค ๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ฎ
๐ฅ๐ฅ – ๐๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐๐จ ๐๐ช๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐, ๐๐ช๐ฉ ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐ค ๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ
๐ฅ – ๐๐๐ฉ’๐จ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ ๐จ๐๐ฎ ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐๐ฉ