Peat's Beast Batch Strength PX Sherry (70cl, 54.1%)

Peat's Beast Batch Strength PX Sherry is a strongly peated Scottish single malt whisky, finished for nine months in Pedro Ximénez sherry casks. The finish adds dried fruit character, with dates and figs alongside maritime and spicy impressions, to the intense peat smoke. Peppery peat, damp burnt fern and salty seaweed contrast with sherry sweetness and a rum-raisin ice cream impression. It is bottled at 54.1% batch strength without chill filtration or colouring, in a 0.7 litre bottle with a tube. On the nose, damp smoke, peat, medicinal hints and seaweed appear, followed by sweet, syrupy notes of burnt sugar. The palate meets powerful peat with the warm sweetness of dates and figs, plus clove and vanilla. The finish is very long, with peat smoke in the throat, pronounced chocolate notes, sweet rum-raisin ice cream and burnt caramel.