Talisker, the only Single Malt Scotch Whisky rugged enough to call the Isle of Skye its home, has announced the launch of Port Ruighe. It is enriched by double maturation in port cask wood and has been named after the principal town and port on the Isle of Skye.
Like the recently released Talisker Storm, the newly launched Talisker Port Ruighe is a permanent addition to the current core range of Talisker single malt whiskies.
It has been bottled at the traditional Talisker strength of 45.8% ABV, without an age statement. It will be available from mid-April 2013 in whisky specialist retailers in Western European markets. Talisker Port Ruighe will have a Recommended Retail Price at a premium of 20/25% to the price of Talisker 10 year old.
For more information as well as the tasting notes for this new release, please visit the source link below.
News source – Whisky Intelligence
Some Talisker information:
- The distillery was founded in 1830 and built in 1831 at Carbost. It was rebuilt in 1960 after a stillhouse fire completely destroyed the distillery.
- Is currently still the only distillery on the Isle of Skye.
- Talisker has an unusual feature – swan neck lye pipes. A loop exists in the pipes taking the vapour from the stills to the worm tubs so some of the alcohol condenses before it even reaches the cooler. It then runs back in to the stills and is distilled again.
- In 1880 Robert Louis Stevenson described it, in his poem “The Scotsman’s Return From Abroad”, as “The king o’ drinks, as I conceive it, Talisker, Islay, or Glenlivet.”.
- In “Assegai” by Wilbur Smith, General Penrod Ballantyne’s favoured whisky is Talisker.
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