SMWS 66.252 Surf ‘n’ turf SMWS

We found this opened rather sharply on antiseptic-doused sheep’s wool, before further notes of mildly medicinal phenols, iodine and camphor, with a sense of frying bacon and mutton stock. We felt it seemed true to this distillery’s notably ‘agricultural’ character. Reduction brought dried sage, pork scratchings, aniseed distillate and salted liquorice – with a surprisingly weighty peat smoke. The neat palate was very farmy, and full of impressions of coal scuttles, tar extracts, burning rosemary wood and metallic peat smoke. Water retained all this potent peat, while bringing out notes of lemon verbena, salted porridge, bacon jam and salt ‘n’ chilli-fried squid.