Talisker Black Label Gordon & Macphail

Talisker 2000 Distillers Edition

Talisker DE 2000 is an 11 year-old whisky which aged in ex-bourbon cask and finished in amoroso sherry(aka cream sherry) cask for a few months, this is a 20cl bottle which has been opened for 6 months. Nose: Fruity and peaty. Orange peel, peat, smoke, raisin, tobacco and leather. Palate: Dried herb, sea salt, apple brandy, black pepper, ginseng...

Score 90/100

Talisker 15 Year Old (Diageo Special Releases 2019)

Found a heel of this Talisker sitting around, and thought we could do a side-by-side with the standard 10 Year Old. This 15 Year Old was part of the Diageo Special Releases in 2019. It is fully matured in freshly charred American oak hogsheads. For a Talisker, quite peaty on the nose, with lemon drops, freshly ground black pepper, chili, burnt...

Score 91/100

Talisker Double Matured (Bottled 2008)

A very luxurious malt with a deft combination of the distilleries characteristic attack, mellowed by the extra cask aging which was in Jerez Amoroso wood according to the label. The bottle says it was distilled in 1996 and bottled 2008, although how long it’s spent in the Amoroso casks it doesn’t say. The 12 or so years of aging have produced a...

Score 94/100

Talisker Neist Point

Last year I hosted a Talisker Masterclass in my neck of the woods. What we tasted was top notch, but this Talisker Neist Point was not in the line-up then. I had not even tasted this Travel Retail Exclusive yet. Pascal, one of my whiskybuddies present at the tasting, told me it was very good and even went so far as to offer me his bottle with a...

Score 86/100