AnCnoc Peatheart Highland Single Malt

An initial burst of smoke gives way to a surge of fruit — ripe pear, apple and lime citrus, with a touch of tobacco behind; the smoke is forceful but always carries a sweetness that keeps it in balance. The palate is smoke laced with leather and sweet stewed apples, chocolate through the middle, closing on sweet vanilla and zesty lemon. This is anCnoc's Peatheart: a deliberate counterpoint from a distillery best known for unpeated whisky, made from barley malted to 40 PPM (phenols drop through distillation and maturation) — the heaviest of its peated range.