TALISKER - The Distillers Edition - Double Matured in Amoroso Seasoned American Oak Casked - 45.8%
Talisker Distillery is based in Carbost , Scotland on the Isle of Skye . It dates back to 1831, when the MacAskill brothers opened their distillery at Talisker House in the settlement of Carbost on the west coast of Skye. The building was a gift from the Chief of Clan MacLeod and the clan has remained associated with the distillery. The MacAskills sold the business in 1825 and it became part of the Distillers Company. Today, Talisker is an integral part of Diageo's Classic Malt range. It has five stills in operation, producing around 2 million liters of alcohol a year and the water comes from springs in the Cuillin Hills, which overlook the distillery. Due to Skye's relatively poor soils, barley is grown in the area known as the Muir of Ord on the mainland 20km west of Inverness.
The Distiller's Edition 2022 is matured in Sherry Amoroso barrels. This is a unique sherry created many years ago by the workers of the Sherry region who stopped at the bodega on their way home to collect their wine. In addition to their usual sherry, they also requested bottles of Oloroso with a touch of Pedro Ximénez for their wives, so that the wine tasted more "amoroso", or amiable. The bodega adopted the style and this wine became their version of a Cream Sherry. It is a blend of Oloroso aged for 15 years and Pedro Ximénez, aged together for 4 years in American oak barrels.
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