Cù Bòcan Whisky Marks Twenty Years of Peat at Tomatin with a New Restricted Launch Creation #7

Cù Bòcan, the experimental single malt produced every winter at Tomatin Distillery, has launched its most inspiring launch thus far. Creation #7 honours 20 years of peated whisky manufacturing at Tomatin and arrives with a flavour profile impressed by one of many distillery’s personal historic types.

The Creations collection has lengthy been the house for Cù Bòcan’s boundary-pushing strategy to cask experimentation. This newest version has been matured in a uncommon mixture of Pineau des Charentes Rouge and American virgin oak, leading to a whisky formed by notes of rhubarb, custard, candy oak spice and a mild heather smoke. Blender and international model ambassador Scott Adamson chosen the Pineau casks to attract on Tomatin’s rising expertise with fortified wine maturation, following current initiatives such because the French Assortment. He describes Creation #7 as an invite to discover, with the seldom-used Pineau des Charentes Rouge casks unlocking nostalgic flavour cues that sit superbly with the distillery’s evenly peated spirit.

The discharge coincides with a major milestone for Tomatin. Since 2005, the ultimate week of every yr’s manufacturing has been dedicated to making a evenly peated new make, a practice influenced by the distillery’s early reliance on native peat provides when it was based in 1897. These winter runs reap the benefits of exceptionally chilly water temperatures, which assist create a barely oilier new make, now an integral attribute of Cù Bòcan’s model.

Creation #7 is introduced within the model’s sculpted bottle and a vivid pink and yellow carton echoing the whisky’s rhubarb and custard profile. Pure in color, non-chill filtered and bottled at 46% ABV. Restricted to only 3,000 bottles worldwide, with 1,400 allotted to the UK. It’s accessible now by way of Tomatin Distillery’s on-line store.