Talisker

Tasting notes:At 57.9%, this one is unmistakably young and feisty. But at the same time, the nose opens with more sophistication than one would expect from and 8 year old: [...]

Tasting notes:On the nose, it’s evident that this is one of the more extraordinary Taliskers we’ve ever had. The nose is simultaneously flowery and custardy, [...]

Tasting notes:The nose on the Talisker 8 Year Old 2018 Special Release opens with seaweed pickling in an old oil drum, sitting by the oar-hole in an old Greek trireme. It’s [...]

Tasting notes: Before breaching the eye of the Storm, I’ll note that recently we ran an intimate informal poll: Which distillery that we’ve never visited should [...]

Tasting notes: This dram is so dark ruby red, if you click the glass against the bottle three times, you end up in Kansas, which is a biker bar on the Isle of Skye.  The [...]

Tasting notes: The Diageo Talisker 27 is…I must digress. When John wrote up the Talisker 10, he put into words what I hadn’t fully conceptualized but always felt [...]

Tasting notes: Talisker is a favorite.  It’s one of the first bottles of single malt I ever purchased.  And if it appears in the drink menu of a fine restaurant, I feel, [...]

Tasting notes:      How do you review a dram that serves as your benchmark?  For through it I have endeavored to measure the world of whiskies, to draw the cartography [...]

Tasting notes      Alas, there is no Burns Supper in the cards for us here at the Malt Impostor on this Burns Day.  As close as we’ll come to a feast of haggis, [...]