The Wild Blue is a brand new restricted version from Talisker. It underlines the distillery’s salty and smoky DNA with a 16-month end in South African crimson wine casks, utilized in wineries close to the Atlantic coast.
Like Talisker Wilder Seas, every bottle features a £3 donation to the Blue Marine Basis, which helps the restoraion of coastal and marine habitats. The bottle is 100% recycled glass. I assume it offers you a greater take a look at the E150 colored spirit.
Talisker The Wild Blue (48,2%, OB 2025, Atlantic Coastal wine end)
Nostril: crimson fruits are straightforward to note. Some juicy figs, sultanas and hints of raspberry ganache. This goes properly alongside iodine and smoked bacon, gentle ashes and hints of candy wooden spice. Black peppercorns. Crimson berry sweet. Then contemporary citrus notes and whiffs of menthol, in addition to pipe tobacco within the background. A pleasant nostril.
Mouth: on the spot black pepper – good. Then crimson fruits once more, though much less candy than I anticipated. Extra in the direction of cranberries, grapes and pickled lemons. Mid-palate a tangy winey observe seems, together with a bitter edge. Then a touch of cough syrup, coastal smoke and poached pears. In the long run the tannins and oaky grip turns into a tad harsh.
End: medium, on candy smoke, black pepper, charcoal smoke and leathery dryness.
As you realize crimson wine finishes begin with a drawback in my guide. On the nostril this Talisker did persuade me, however on the palate it turns into a bit too winey for my style. No less than the everyday Talisker markers are robust sufficient to resist the wine. Obtainable from The Whisky Change for example. I acquired a pattern from Whiskysite.nl.
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