Meikle Toir 5YO, The Chinquapin One, 48% - Whisky Wednesday
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2024
- Meikle Toir Part 2: The Chinquapin One.
It’s no secret that virgin oak is my first love of whisky. Billy Walker is somewhat instrumental in that love, too. Many years ago at The Whisky Shop, an exclusive BenRiach was bottled for the company, a 17YO cask strength with a virgin oak finish. Wedding bells may as well have rung out across the whisky community because I bought and drank about 5 bottles of this stuff in half as many years. Stunning.
But here we have new distillate, peated to 35ppm, and matured solely in Chinquapin virgin oak casks. This type of white oak was first used by Jura, if memory serves me correctly, and it was a little lost in the mix. It’s all well and nice to shout about utilising new wood, but when it’s lost in the vatting process to fundamental dullness, it’s not easy to sing it to the roof in celebration. Luckily, we don’t have to worry about that here.
This is an absolutely stunning example of how virgin oak can mature Scotch whisky to a degree of true succession in regards to the true balance of a product. We are overwhelmed by white chocolate, caramel, cocoa, plum notes, orange oil, cedar wood smoke, powdered sugar, croissants, and all of the boozy delight that there is to be had when exemplary skills are put to use to make two very powerful forces in whisky work together. Billy Walker, fucking hell.
Cheers!
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Sounds unreal bud. Cheers.
Can't wait for you guys to get your hands on them.
Another hitter! Thanks for the review, cheers!
Thanks, man!
Chinquapin in the Beech Family, Genus Chestnut (I think) -- thanks for the review -- I've ordered the sherry and this one as well.
You are correct! They're both so good. I'm just in awe.
Sounds delicious, Phil. Thanks for the informative review.
Anytime!
That sounds great, I hope to see them in USA I day, I appreciate every single review of yours.thank you
Thank you! That means so much. They should be in the US very soon.
Great review - thanks. On a side note, really recommend the new Glasgow manzanilla cask. It is incredible.
I've had my eye on those three releases. I'm in Glasgow in May, hoping to try it then.
Great review man. The comparison to Ledaig makes me very intrigued. Last virgin oak peated whisky I had was the Octomore 13.4 Virgin oak. Interesting and good whisky, but not my preferred Octomore profile. Cheers buddy 🥃
I feel like Octomore profiles are all over the place these days. I remember the 5.1 and The Dialogos 10YO the most. They were both these really fizzy, Jalapeño styled whiskies. But yes, if you can lay hands on this for RRP, 100% worth your time.
All 4 hit my local market in the states. Of course I tried the turbo first.
I'll have to ask my therapist if I need all of them...
$10-20 less than the Laph10 sherry.
I guess I'll find the space and the $$$. There was a 4 year old peated GlenAllachie that I passed on, at double the price, so all is good.
Since I am not finding many nice new bourbon matured unpeated options lately, I've been all about the peat. And it's simply amazing how I smell and taste right past it. The sweet notes and the cask influence just blend in and surpass the peat. KK HP, Ardnamurchin and even Uigeadail are what I'm alternatively drinking.
I wouldn't be so excited to buy a 5 year old unpeated anything.
Incredible, aren't they! I ignored them at first, and I've no idea why. Flippers and collectors taking all the stock for themselves. But having tasted, loved, and now owning them, truly delicious.
I do get some off notes with the Chinkapins I tried, including the single cask from Glenallachie but I think due to the peat any off note was gone and I quite enjoyed this one. Cheers Phil!
The peat did balance out a lot of the acetone/glue notes you can get from virgin oak at times. The peat just added a new level to this.