Vital Spark 2013 11 Year Old Caribbean Rum Cask (50cl, 55.8%)

This is an 11 year old heavily peated Islay single malt, matured in Caribbean rum casks. It is a small batch bottling created by Donald and Andy Hart, and the eighth release in the series, filled into 929 bottles of 50cl at 55.8% vol. It is non-chill-filtered and of natural colour. The name comes from a coastal ship that carried whisky casks and coal on the River Clyde in the 1930s. The nose is maritime with clear peat smoke, salted liquorice and caramel over toasted oak. The palate is oily, medicinal and full, with smoked bacon, sultanas dipped in chocolate and caramel sugar. The finish is long and smoky, with dried fruit, liquorice and sea salt.