Origin: Highlands (Scotland)
Type: Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Strength: 53.2%ABV
Ageing cask: Finished in ex-Sherry PX first fill
Chillfiltered: No
Added colouring: No
Owner: Dram Mor Group
Average price: € 130.00
Official website: drammorgroup.com
Vote: 89/100
Another release from last autumn of the Scottish bottler, with the peated version of the polymorphic Loch Lomond, in a bottling that recalls two others in the same line that came out in previous years, thus with increasing ageing but different cask finishing: if in 2022 it was the sherry amontillado, this year it is back to the PX as it was in 2021.
191 fullcask strength bottles with a marriage of smoke and fortified wine casks that generally works very well.
Tasting notes
The nose expresses an elegant delicacy, in which peat imbues the aromas with mineral and vegetable tones and just a patina of smoke, which appears and disappears between folds of the fragrance drape. We enter a chocolate shop, with shelves filled with all varieties: milk, dark, berry, candied orange peel, lime, even mint. Malt cream, marzipan and blueberry yoghurt spread in the background, while over time a patch of damp brushwood grows with puffs of sulphur. Rich and multifaceted.
On the palate, it begins with chilli pepper that tingles on the chocolate declinations of the nose, with some floral hints (including a shade of violet) and peat that becomes even less smoky and more vegetal, with some saline hints on a pushed minerality that lead together to considerable salivation. Red fruits, peeled almonds, baked apple and mushrooms act as a corollary.
The finish is quite long in which the smoke makes its presence felt on a vegetal tapestry with floral touches, red fruits, chocolate and salt.
Full-bodied and elegant, with a distinct personality that expresses the terroir and brings out the particularities of its peat. Perhaps one of the most successful bottlings of Dràm Mòr, and of anything Loch Lomond I tasted so far.