Talisker 10 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml) - 1980s Bottling

Note: Product has come from a private collection and as such may have some minor scuffing/scratches/handling marks. Actual product pictured.

Other reviews... [circa 1988 bottling] These batches, in my experience, are often softer and more overtly fruity in profile - something that can be said about most of Scotland’s historically peated single malts. Colour: gold. Nose: what’s notable at first is some old bottle effect (OBE), which is a rather harsh reminder of how old these bottlings are now. Metal polish, shoe polish, coal smoke, damp grains and then - with patience - comes some green banana, mango and crystallised lemon peel. Still a very present coastal impression behind all that, something I think it shares with current batches. Mouth: superb arrival. All on olive oils, tropical fruit juices, seawater, ink, green Chartreuse, boiled lime sweets, camphor, black pepper and copper coins (that OBE again). It’s heartening that this Talisker ‘salt n pepper’ aspect is already very vivid in this early batch. Finish: good length, getting rather drying, grapefruit piths, smoked sea salt, oysters, green olives and hessian. Comments: Other batches were brighter and more luminously fruity in my experience. I think these wee notes of OBE have obfuscated certain key characteristics here, other bottlings are comfortably 91 points territory. Having said that, it’s still a brilliant drop, just maybe for your tumbler rather than your copita…? 88 points - whiskyfun.com