Whisky Forum - An Cnoc - Peated

webdunk · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:54 pm Post subject: An Cnoc - Peated

I've been quite a fan of this range from An Cnoc - my favourite so far has been Flaughter. They do seem to sneak different expressions into particular markets and travel retail tho. Anyone heard of any expressions other than :

Stack (Eastern & Western Europe and Scandinavia)
Tushkar (Sweden)
Rudhan (Travel Retail)
Cutter
Flaughter
Rutter
Rascan
Peatlands (Eastern & Western Europe and Scandinavia)
Barrow (Travel Retail)

2005 Royal Mile Whiskies Exclusive Single Cask 58.1% (The first ever UK exclusive single cask of AnCnoc, 222 bottles)

William · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 3:43 pm Post subject:

At a glance I don't see any of the anCnoc Peaty expressions missing from your list. I have had the pleasure of all on your list except the Peatlands

They have all been consistent in quality, with the Cutter, Stack and Flaughter standing out for me, you can read my review of these here:

http://www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/ancnocpeaty.htm

http://www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/ancnoccutter.htm

http://www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/ancnocstackreview.htm

Surprisingly TWE still have some of the Flaughter available

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/23841/ancnoc-flaughter
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Forbes · Double Malt Member Joined: 10 Sep 2010 Posts: 191

The AnCnoc Stack released last year was very good, that was the last release I am aware of.

webdunk · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 8:14 am Post subject:

Thanks folks - glad none have sneaked past me Smile

webdunk · Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 11:40 am Post subject:

I see Peatheart is on the way at 40ppm.

William · Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 1:47 pm Post subject:

William · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 3:57 pm Post subject:

You will find the details of the new anCnoc Peatheart here:

www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/ancnocpeatheart.htm
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webdunk · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 4:01 pm Post subject:

Thanks

Kind of begs the question as to whether or not this is a new member of the range or a new range. I dislike it when brands go off-piste like this.

Torrie · Master Of Malts Joined: 01 Oct 2016 Posts: 398

I am sure it will be in line with the quality of previous bottling in the range but it does look like they are trying to hype up the peat level in the whisky, it could be misleading to those who had the earlier bottling in the range

Mark · Master Of Malts Joined: 27 Sep 2006 Posts: 1663

I have a bottle of the travel retail anCnoc Rudhan which is very good, it doesn't state the PPM on the bottle at all, I would guess it is around 15 PPM.

For the new Peatheart I can see how they want to use the big PPM figure of the malted barley just as most other whisky brands do that express a figure but they are a bit late doing it with this range and I do think they could mislead some who have had previous peaty collection bottlings, they will be expecting something very peaty in comparison to earlier peaty collection bottlings.

webdunk · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 2:36 pm Post subject:

Bookie · Master Of Malts Joined: 15 Sep 2008 Posts: 945

Well done William for picking up and highlighting this, I for one would have assumed that Peatheart was going to be the peatiest AnCnoc to date. We could do with some guidelines/rules for bottlers to follow when stating phenol PPM levels on a bottle

webdunk · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 3:09 pm Post subject:

The article linked above suggests it was AnCnoc who were breaking ranks (there's nothing in place strong enough to be a rule as it stands) by choosing that measure and they've fallen back into line with the rest of the industry with Peatheart.