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Torabhaig Cnoc Na Moine is a 2024 release from the distillery on the Isle of Skye. This is the third release overall from the distillery. Cnoc Na Moine is the Gaelic for "peated hill". Alongside Concerto barley, Anchor malt is also used. The barley is peated to approximately 78.4 ppm, resulting in a spirit with 19.7 ppm residuals.
The influence of the sherry casks makes the peat more mellow and refined, less pungent and intense. The fruit component keeps a zesty, citrusy side such as red currant. There is a semi-sweet spicy side, with some fresh vanilla and some oak spices as well.
Once again, similarly to Allt Gleann, the smoky side is more intense on the palate, yet smoothened by the sherry influence. There are barbecue hints, more robust spicy kick, some distant minor cocoa and leather. Probably it is slightly less integrated than the nose, showing some youth.
Coherent, medium length, clearly less peppery than Allt Gleann, with hints of red apple and currant.
Torabhaig Cnoc Na Moine is an interesting evolution when compared with Allt Gleann, showing more richness and a more refined and mellower peat. The influence of sherry casks achieve several targets, while the spirit nature, zesty and citrusy, clean and high, is somehow preserved. The combination of peat and sherry casks is always complex, and here the sensation is that some extra years of aging would have provided the extra needed integration.
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