Talisker 1979 18 Year Old Cadenhead's

Talisker New Make Spirit

Talisker does not commercialise its new make. I was able to score this via… sorry, no names as per request. But at 70.5% ABV this comes straight from the still, even before diluting it to go into the cask. To reiterate: I love new make, so this is another one off the bucket list. It was distilled in the summer of 2018. Wonderfully clean nose that...

Score 80/100

Talisker 10 Year Old

I decided to leave Speyside for the Isle of Skye, and quickly realized I was in for a very different experience. Talisker 10 has a very sweet and spicy nose. Oranges, cinnamon, and a very sea-like element instantly become apparent in the nose. The palate itself is an explosion of pepper, peat, smoke and cinnamon, followed by a finish of even...

Score 75/100

Talisker Select Reserve

So back in May, the first four Game of Thrones malts showed up at the LCBO (Cardhu, Lagavulin, Dalwhinnie and Glendullan) in fair enough quantities that I was able to pick up two of each without too much effort. For the remaining four malts, we waited...and waited...and waited... Now maybe I just got lazy, but they seemed to have vanished before...

Score 88/100

Talisker 1998 Distillers Edition

Matured in amoroso casks. The amoroso makes for a softer dram with an additional sweetness but There is the usual Talisker complexity with notes of toffee and dark chocolate, seaweed,damp peat, finishing with a a smokeness clloser to Lagavulin. Talisker in one my favorites the DE is good but maybe a tinker too far

Score 86/100