My introduction to Westland and what a cracker it was: peat, sweet, and bbq all come together beautifully.
Reviews of scotch and world whiskies by a history professor, his wife, bird, and three cats.
Reviews of scotch and world whiskies by a history professor, his wife, bird, and three cats.
All in World Whisky
My introduction to Westland and what a cracker it was: peat, sweet, and bbq all come together beautifully.
Curiosity satisfied. I loved this. The baked earthen oven and caramelized vegetable notes hit my right in the savory spot. The unpeated Indian malted barley and the peated Scottish barley are in perfect harmony in this bottle. One brings savory spices, the other sweet peaty smoke, each furthering the complexity of the dram. The whole scene takes me straight to a beachside “Baby’s First Luau,” hanging out with parents and friends in the shade, salty ocean in the air, food slowly cooking.
The lightly peated ‘Edited’ is the middle child of Paul John’s core retail range, sitting between the unpeated ‘Brilliance’ and heavily peated ‘Bold.’ It combines elements of both, balancing the influence of Scottish peated malt against the tropical and tangy malted six-row barley from northern India.
Two single cask halves of the “Luna Release,” I would have assumed the 12Y Peated was the “dark side of the moon” and the 5 Year unpeated “the light side.” According to Stefan Van Eycken, who provided the bottles at the tasting, the inspiration was Taiso Yoshitoshi's "One Hundred Views of the Moon.”
