Talisker 10 Years Old Bottling Isle of Skye Single Malt Scotch Whisky 45.8% ABV - rare bottling with the Stone-Label from the year 2001
A rare 10 year old vintage 1991 Talisker Isle of Skye Single Malt Scotch Whiskey from the year 2001 with the old stone label and the gray box. A beautiful collectible bottling!
Talisker distillery is an single malt Scotch whisky distillery based in Carbost, Scotland and the only distillery on the Isle of Skye. The distillery was founded in 1830 by Hugh and Kenneth MacAskill, and built in 1831 at Carbost after a number of false starts on other sites when they acquired the lease of Talisker House from the MacLeod of MacLeod. The distillery was rebuilt 1880-87 and extended in 1900. When a new lease for the distillery was negotiated with the chief of Clan MacLeod in 1892 the annual payment was to be £23.12s and a ten-gallon cask of best-quality Talisker. It was rebuilt in 1960 after a stillhouse fire completely destroyed the distillery. The distillery operates five stills; two wash stills and three spirit stills. All the stills use worm tubs (condensing coils) rather than a modern condenser, which are believed to give the whisky a undquot;fullerundquot; flavour (itself an indication of higher sugar content). During this early period, the whisky was produced using a triple distilling method, but changed to the more conventional double distilling in 1928. Talisker was acquired by Distillers Company in 1925 and is now part of Diageo. After the 1960 fire, five exact replicas of the original stills were constructed to preserve the original Talisker flavour. In 1972 the stills were converted to steam heating and the maltings floor was demolished. Talisker s water comes from springs directly above the distillery via a network of pipes and wells.
The malted barley used in production comes from Muir of Ord. Talisker has an unusual feature -- swan neck lye pipes. A loop in the pipes takes the vapour from the stills to the worm tubs so some of the alcohol already condenses before it reaches the cooler. It then runs back in to the stills and is distilled again. Talisker now has an annual output of three and a half million litres of spirit.
Talisker was the favourite whisky of writers Robert Louis Stevenson and HV Morton. In his poem The Scotsman s Return From Abroad, Stevenson mentioned The king o drinks, as I conceive it, Talisker, Islay, or Glenlivet.
The malt is peated to a phenol level of approximately 18-25 parts per million (ppm), which is a medium peating level. Additionally, the water used for production, from Cnoc nan Speireag (Hawk Hill), flows over peat which adds additional complexity to the whisky.
Talisker is a distillery with its own character and the Talisker whiskies are characterized by a lot of pepper combined with almost explosive tastes on the palate and its unique maritime character. Whisky tasters have always used superlatives to describe the taste of the Talisker whisky. Today, especially the rare bottlings from the 60s, 70s and early 80s are particularly popular by connoisseurs and collectors.
- Typ: Single Malt Whisky - Distillery Bottling
- District: Isle of Skye
- Vintage: 1991
- Age: 10 years old
- Year bottled: 2001
- Alcohol ABV% 45.8
- Bottling Serie: The Classic Malts
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- Label: Stone Label
- Bottle-Code: L15R0235xxxxx
- coloured / chill filtered
- Packaging original boxed - gray box (box with traces)
- Producer/Importer: Talisker Distillery Carbost Isle of Skye IV47 8SR, Scotland
- Country of Origin Scotland
- limited, number unknown - old bottling and rare collector s whisky!
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