An older version of Hunter Laing’s much loved Scarabus single malt whisky.
This 10 year old dram has been distilled at a mystery distillery on Islay, before being aged in a combination of refill former Bourbon barrels and virgin oak casks.
The end result is a dram with notes of light peat smoke, sea spray, vanilla, leather, flowers, lime juice, charred, oak, wood smoke, green apples, grapes, a little iodine, lemon rind, brown sugar and more sweet peat.
Scarabus takes its name from a mystical part of Islay, and comes from the ancient Norse word meaning ‘rocky place.’ It was also the name of an isolated farm distillery which closed in the 1800s.
A step up in quality and age from its younger sibling, but just as beautifully presented.