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23rd September 2021 |
Douglas Laing
unveil their Big Peat Christmas 2021
Cask Strength limited edition.
 Well
here it is, the annual sign to whisky
drinkers that summer is coming to an end
and Christmas is now on the way, Santa's
helpers at Douglas Laing's Glasgow
workshop have been busy vatting and
bottling and have now unveiled this
years peaty festive offering, Big Peat
Christmas 2021 Edition.
Big Peat Christmas 2021 Edition is
offered at natural cask strength, 52.8%
ABV, and as you would expect it is
without colouring or chill-filtration,
this year’s festive release is said to
be "packed with earthy, leathery, ashy
charm, balanced by a wonderfully warming
sweetness".
The Limited Edition launch rounds off a
big year for the cult Islay Malt, a year
that has seen Big Peat take home a Gold
Award at the prestigious San Francisco
World Spirits Awards and the Master
Medal at the Spirits Business Awards.
These awards, the family say, are
“testament to the quality offered by our
carefully-crafted, high strength Blended
Malt”.
As always you would be hard pushed to
find a more festive looking bottle to
give a Islay whisky lover as a Christmas
gift, this year the Big Peat Christmas
edition is packaged in a lustrous
icy-blue gift tube with gloss-varnished
snowflakes, the gift tube carries
bespoke illustration depicting the
iconic bearded fisherman riding a sleigh
on his island home of Islay. The festive
candy-striped red and white bottle
capsule that has become synonymous with
this annual Christmas release completes
the premium gifting Whisky.
Fred Laing, Chairman of his family’s
firm, comments: "Our family business is
truly grateful and pleased to know that
our Big Peat Christmas bottling has
become something of an annual ritual for
other Islay Whisky-loving families all
over the world. It is so heartwarming to
receive messages from keen consumers for
whom opening that special bottle of Big
Peat Christmas marks the beginning of
the festivities with friends and family.
At the figurative helm of our family
sits Big Peat himself – and so, from our
family to yours, we wish you a very
Merry Christmas indeed."
Available from September you will find
Big Peat Christmas 2021 available from
specialist online whisky retailers such
as
The Whisky Exchange
and
Master of Malt usually priced
around £53.
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Big Peat Christmas 2019 Review
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Note that this is a tasting note for the
2019 edition but in my experience these
festive releases have been consistent in
their big peaty quality.
William
Morrison's Tasting Notes:
Nose:
A deliciously enticing gristy Islay mix
of salt, lemon citrus and peat smoke.
Some sweet vanilla which is kept in
check by a salty edge. The peat is
gentle but at the same time screams
Islay.
Taste:
Demerara sugar sweetened creamy vanilla
leads and is quickly followed by a mixed
blend of Big Peats oily Islay peatiness
which has a lovely liquorice edge.
Finish:
Long, peaty oils tinged with liquorice
and a little vanilla slowly fades out.
Comment:
Big Peat is not the peat monster some
would expect given its name, it
certainly offers up a big helping of
peat but what it is big on is quality,
and this is another quality well
constructed, cask strength peaty dram
which given its festive packaging and
what's in the bottle I would be more
than happy to find it in my Christmas
stocking. I would say that a mix of
Ardbeg and Coal Ila styles have the
biggest say here, another very enjoyable
peaty dram.
SMW Whisky
Score 88/100
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