Talisker 30 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml)

By several reports, the series of thirty year olds are among the greatest Taliskers ever produced. Take advantage while this special direct import price holds.

Other reviews... [First release tasted] Surprisingly clean and youthful for a 30 year old, both on the nose and palate. Complex, too, with a sea breeze freshness, vanilla malt, polished oak spice, smoked seaweed, lightly tarred boat docks, toasted nuts, and lingering telicherry pepper. Mature, yet still quite powerful. Rivals the original Talisker 25 year old and the Talisker 18 year old as one of the finest Talisker whiskies ever released.
93 points
- maltadvocate.com (Spring 2007) Reviewed by: John Hansell

...much fresher and more infinitely entertaining than the 25 Year Old!
93 points - Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2016

[49.3% bottling tasted] ...These babies pull very mixed feelings when tasted blind because, I think, they deliver rather less power than younger versions of Talisker (I think the 20 or 25 are much more consensual). Nose: extremely dry, and extremely austere at first nosing, almost Jansenist if I may say so. Rocks, clay, earth (or even mud), coal, tar, leaves, putty, soot… It’s only after a good ten minutes that more bitter orange and fresh walnut notes do show up, but the whole never quite becomes fruity. There’s also more medicinal notes, disinfectant… And then the expected pepper. With water: more ‘coastality’. Oysters and lemon. Mouth (neat): big, earthy, leafy, rooty and peaty attack, with quite some brine underneath. Very dry yet again, sharp, very austere, but I love this. With water: more medicinal, Islay-style. More sea stuff as well (to keep all this as short as possible). Finish: maybe not very long but ashier. Also a little olive oil, with something tannic? Also lemons, salt, pepper, oysters…. Comments: I know my descriptions may not sound very sexy, but actually, I adore this kind of whisky, which I find supremely elegant and so anti-commercial, whatever that means. Joni Mitchell vs. Britney Spears… hem, forget about that. 93 points - Serge Valentin, whiskyfun.com