Hogback Wallace Collection Single Malt Peated Whisky Barrel #15

Barrel #15 – Released 2023

The second release using a finishing barrel from the Continuum Estate. Distilled using 100% peated malted barley from Scotland. Matured in an ex-rye American oak barrel for four years, then finished for nine months in a Cabernet Sauvignon barrel from the Continuum Estate, Napa. 

Nose: Lightly phenolic, pine, earthy and grassy. Slightly medicinal and salty.

Palate: Creamy, buttery and salted cashews. Then dark cherry chocolate moose. Lingering sweet peat and black cherries.

More of a Campbelltown than Islay whisky. Lightly briny, subtle, buttery and slightly salty. 

Distilled: August 2018

62.3 abv