Cotswolds Peated Cask Batch 01/2019

Cotswolds Peated Cask Batch 01/2019

Official bottling
Single malt - Warwickshire
Light gold
59.3% ABV
Dram

Nose: Lemon juice, honeydew melon, cream, peat, pear juice, hints of smoke, hints of white grapes. With water, milk, lemon juice, lemon zest, hints of vanilla. 
Mouthfeel: Light body, mouth coating, slippery, cool. 
Tasting:  Bitter sweet. White grapes, honeydew melon, white raisins, peat, leather, smoke, black tea, hints of new plastic. With water, leather, peat, white raisins, vanilla, hints of lemon juice. 
Finish: Short. Black tea, milk, lemon juice, leather, hints of smoke. 

Comments: 

This whisky is wild, the flavour profile feels jumbled, disordered, with the flavours not distinct and changing. Yet somehow it works well, the fruit fades to peat which fades to bitterness, which fades from the palate. I really do like this.

Verdict:

I like this.