Milk & Honey Triple Cask Young Single Malt
Milk & Honey Triple Cask Young Single Malt, NAS, 46 %
OK, then. So now they produce whisky in Tel Aviv, Israel. This particular product, the Milk & Honey Triple Cask Young Single Malt, was bottled 2018-02-06, and is not a whisky. They call it young malt as it has been matured for less than three years.
The official product page is here, and this is their description:
An edition of 1,451 bottles that is the direct, advanced continuation of the previous edition in the series: Triple Cask, a blend of three casks – an ex-bourbon barrel and two ex-red wine casks at different levels of charring, balancing and refining the different flavors. One of the casks was finished for a few months in a barrel that previously used to mature peated whisky from the island of Islay in Scotland, providing an additional layer of slight peatiness , and a complexity to the distillate.
I have no idea where this is available to buy. I simply obtained a sample.
Nose: Creamy vanilla and some oakiness at first. Malt and orchard fruits. Mild pepper and simple syrup.
Palate: Quite rich in character, and more than a little raw on the edges. This is definitely young on the palate as well. An initial burn of spices, some peat smoke and .. well, rawness. Then it mellows out and I get melon, pineapple, vanilla, apples and hints of honey.
Finish: Very short - just a quick imprint, then gone. Pepper, some peatiness, and nuts.
Comment: Well, it certainly is a young malt.
Score 72/100
Sláinte!
- Thomas
PS! Cheers, Alex!
