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Отзывы описывают этот виски как молодой, торфяно-дымный, часто с морскими и цитрусовыми нотами, крепкий (100° proof), но при этом обычно хорошо сбалансированный и выгодный по цене. Часть отзывов отмечает его простоту и заметную молодость, некоторые находят его слишком юным или разочаровывающим.
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В текстовых отзывах виски часто описывают как молодой, но при этом мощный и честный торфяной односолодовый виски из Айлы (предположительно Caol Ila). Нос обычно включает торф, дым, морские/солёные ноты, цитрус, иногда травянистость, лекарственность, жжёную резину или пластик. Во вкусе упоминаются дым, торф, специи, солёная карамель, цитрус, а также иногда мясные, землистые или ашные оттенки; крепость ощущается, но у многих отзывов она интегрирована, хотя часто рекомендуется добавить воду. Финиш описывают как средний или длинный, дымный, иногда сухой и солёный.
Оценки и впечатления расходятся: есть отзывы, где виски называют простым, слишком молодым и даже неразборчиво дефектным из-за молодости, и другие, где он хвалится как приятный, сбалансированный и очень выгодный по соотношению цена/качество. Отмечается также вариативность между партиями/bottling, а в некоторых отзывах подчёркивается, что для раскрытия ему нужно время в бокале или в бутылке.
собрано 68/123 текстовых отзывов · полный lossless-снимок WB
· 2026-10-08T05:21:16Z · источник evidence
Too young, undrinkable whisky. Even mixing with other, more serious and interesting whiskys does not help
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Perfect
Initial notes - opened today. 20th April 2017: Bar code 5-060188-981602. £44 inc postage (Amazon). Nice dram - fresh on opening - Caol Ila, lick of citrus, good smoke with a touch of bandages/ carbolic soap. Some sweetness, but slightly dominated by 'damp wood' cask notes - which I have to say for my palette I'm personally starting to find a little irritating in whiskies in general, especially when they take over . ...Day two - opening up more sweetness, liquorice sweetness, sweet/ dry bitter combo in the finish - very quaffable, as the smoke settles and the damp wood begins to find its place - a nice maltiness begins to emerge.
Tasted this one during a master class by Specialty Drinks end of March 2017 compared to other Port Askaig, this one is a bit more medicinal and a bit more "hospitallic" if that is a word
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A very peaty, smoky, loamy nose without being acidic, as it is tempered by a beneficial marine freshness and a little salt. The entry in the mouth is again quite lemony, mixed with caramel, and what seems to be pomegranate. You don't feel much alcohol despite the 57°, except in the finish, where the lemon gives way to red fruits and a touch of earth. A delicate length in the mouth, slightly salty and oily. It's a good cask strength, quite fine and well thought out. It's Caol Ila, the nose is similar. I recommend adding a splash of water, which will give the whole thing much more balance. A beautiful blend dominated by bourbon and peat, with a very small touch of red fruits. https://ilikesky2020.blogspot.com/2020/06/port-askaig-100-proof.html
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interesting material - if that's not my style - top quality - PLV in the alcohol really good - no obtrusive youth, no shortcoming - a lot of steam
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Perfect
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A plant side, lime, some minerality, seaweed. Gourmand mouth, tart, sweet (caramel), woody, gentian, licorice, alcohol is well integrated. Aeration increases the perceived sugar and salt while reducing the bitterness of this whisky. Long finish and smoke. Very interesting, good q / p.
I find this to be a pure and honest Islay whisky, probably not to most complex, but it does its job well. http://www.whiskywobbles.nl/port-askaig-100-proof/
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After that nose I was expecting a lot of seaweed and fishy notes on the palate but fortunately it is pretty straight and clean
13-04-2018
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| Нос | 65 | peat, spices |
| Вкус | 68 | peat, spices, lacks a bit of complexity |
| Финиш | 66 | peat, spices |
Maybe batch variation is to blame here, but my sample was wayyy too young, with no discernible cask influence whatsoever, practically newmake with a dominant, unpleasant top note of burnt plastic.
Must first breathe for about 15 minutes, until its aroma has fully unfolded. Nose: pistachios - chocolates Taste: dark chocolate Finish: very long, over 20 minutes. Slightly leathery, then slowly rising, strong smoke and peat. Class single malt, with a price that is traded well below its value.
*** ????: light crystalline, almost colorless ????: intense seaweed, slightly wine, sweet wine, lively, young, slightly subdued sweetness ????: strong, sharp, very sharp! Very spicy! Sweet ????: slightly spicy, slightly sweet, even after a while a bit tart, short * Very similar to 8yo + with a slight wine note, maybe a bit better than 8yo, but still nothing to brag about. * ????: 4/10 ????: 85/100
Simple and clear. 84
нос 85 · вкус 86 · финиш 85
When I first started drinking whisky, I was not immune to the strong iodine and peaty substances, so I didn't know much about the taste of whisky. However, as I drank various whiskys, my tongue experienced various tastes, and the above whiskys became softer and more delicious. If you are disappointed with your first impression, wait 6 months to a year. If you are still disappointed, wait 2 years...
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| Нос | 86 | The saltiness of jamon, the scent of dried fruit, and the smokiness that comes from burning wood. |
| Вкус | 90 | The intense spiciness and smokiness followed by the sweetness go really well together. |
| Финиш | 88 | The smokiness felt in the taste continues deep into the throat, leaving a sweetness on the tongue. |
Perfect
нос 87 · вкус 86 · финиш 87
Overall a good product. Is this Caol Ila? To be drunk to see if the alcohol is less felt. Probably very young product (4-5-6 years?). 84+ / 85-
нос 86 · вкус 87 · финиш 86
Distilled by Caol Ila this Port Askaig is really good, shame no oysters on hand!
Good value for money Caol Ila, but not (just) feel the well-known flavors.
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Tasted blind. If taken price into consideration, this is a solid 89. Good strength, very fresh & zesty fruity peat. Very quaffable. 86-90 - A to-share bottle
25/09/2022 90 / 100 Color: Very light straw, natural. AROMA - 21 / 25 Plenty of peat, freshness, and earthiness. A pleasant sweet-and-sour aroma with notes of vanilla. Beneath the heavy smoke, we find orchard fruit and floral notes. Young, simple, and quite alcoholic. TASTE - 23.5 / 25 A powerhouse of flavor! Sweet, smoky, and woody with notes of leather, charcoal, salted caramel, smoked bacon, and prunes. FINISH - 23.5 / 25 Warming with notes of dried fruit, campfire potatoes, and dark chocolate. It lasts long and is very pleasant. BALANCE - 22 / 25 It has about 35 PPM, is not chill-filtered and probably comes from Caol Ila. Personally it reminds me a lot of Ardbeg Corryvreckan. Very nice and solid for the price, so it's worth having it on your shelf.
n:really young with peat,barley and tha youngish plastic notes m:peppery,waxy,nutty,ashy f:a bit spicy finish with some sweet honey,wood smoke and nuts good value for money if you don't mind the fact that it tastes young.... it's nice but it doesen't hide its youth....especially on the nose..
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A clean, lingering sweet, peaty, and significantly spicy Islay single malt at cask strength. Lovely fruity texture, well balanced by a nice peat fire and an intensly warming spiciness. Quite quaffable both neat or diluted with a few drops of water. Although the distillery is not mentioned on the label I would assume it's Caol Ila. Good value for money, too. I thank Kirsch Whisky Import for the sample! https://www.facebook.com/whisky.connaisseur/
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An Islay power house, on ABV as well as taste. Loved this sample from karloff.
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| Нос | 87 | Ah, heavily peated Caol Ila. Intense maritime Islay peat. Mineral and lightly citric. |
| Вкус | 93 | First (large) sip is a breathtaking attack on the senses. A mouthfull of smouldering embers and hot ashes. Then someone tries to put it out with a bucket of seawater, it's not working, so your mouth is stuffed with kelp. Salty licorice, engine oil and rubber. However strange it sounds; lovely! |
| Финиш | 90 | It's long. Some fruity notes dance on the tounge while the spicy fire keeps burning at the back of the throat. |
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That's nice, young, fresh no-nonsense Caol Ila. Would not surprise me if it is only 6 years old or something. 85pt
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And ample enough, I give it a seven.
Very pleasant drink for less than 60€.
Tasting Notes: https://whiskycuse.wordpress.com/2016/07/24/port-askaig-100-proof-571-vol-speciality-drinks-ltd-2015/
Rating: 73 points, € 20.- Note: Striking light green fragrance. It is as if he 'matured' in a steel barrel. Do not show any nice influence of wood, vanillin or fruit.
Blindtasting A great young straightforward "Caol Ila"!
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83+
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Tasting Notes by VanZuylen: Color: gold. Nose: aromas of crisp, peaty malt, sea breeze, lemon and licorice. Taste: notes of peat smoke, salted caramel, dark spice and sweet malted barley. Finish: notes of herbs, smoke and star anise, with fine drying accents of oak.
Whisky tasting, Cafe de Toeter Groningen, 27-12-2015
Sweet, racy nose. Vanilla and a little salt. Strong in taste and sweet and spicy in the nose. With water a bit milder but also considerably saltier. This is clearly a Caol Ila!
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SWA-Alarm! Caol Ila + ex Kilchoman Cask ( very wet) = Single Malt Port Askaig 100 Proof (vatted, sorry blendet Malt) Achtung recall! Bid 40 EUR Ask 50 EUR
нос 86 · вкус 85 · финиш 85
beautiful peat, quite young, a lot of medicinal plants, gentian, lemon confit, mouth a little too sweet for my taste. Alcohol perfectly integrated, quite good length on plants, ash, salt.
N- Strawberry chewing gum that are quite....hmmmm, then acceptable but clouded kelp, yoghurt and burnt metal. Fiery throughout with some quality breezes that filled with pineapple, grapefruits, coconut, oily tarmac and burnt leaf, but very starchy and very young. (82/17) P- Sticky and oily young distillates dominant with a small pipette drip of wood extract, closed to un-aged, cheap pungent nail polish, sulphur and harmful. (75/15) F- Medium long with hefty burn. Nice sweet maltiness are there but remains short and narrow on width. Toddy, starchy lemang and coconut. (80/17) Balanced:- I like Caol Ila, but this is bizarre. (77/16) Weighted Rate:- 65pt — at The Whisky Bar, Kuala Lumpur.
Stronger, fresher, younger, most likely Caol Ila. Alcohol is a lot of pressure. Needs water and warming In the glas.
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| Нос | 84 | Minerally peat, smoked seashells. Ash, fried dough. Once you notice the dough, it’s very present in the nose. |
| Вкус | 84 | Bitter and earthy. Salty. |
| Финиш | 80 | The taste just lingers. Medium-long. The longer it goes, the more pleasant it becomes. |
First bottle batch: L18? - Rating: [97/100] Second bottle batch: L21/8178 00 21 51 - Rating: [90/100] Third bottle batch: L238169 109 07 16 - Rating: [80/100] First and second bottle: Incredible peat bomb, absolutely delicious. One of my favorite bottles of all time. Third bottle: Totally different. Feisty, younger. Reminds me of white rum. Not as peaty. Not bad, but definitely not the same whisky it used to be, IMHO. It is like a CS version of Caol Ila Moch.
нос 84 · вкус 85 · финиш 84
The best peaty NAS whisky I have tasted in a long time, what a pleasant profile.
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Is cask strength, but gives in my opinion too little
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On the nose, malt, lemon and peat present, and a feeling of fresh grass! On the palate, fresh cereals, peppery spices, brandy, and the omnipresent peat, all with a lingering lemony flavor. In the final, and it's just there that the rub, the peat falls a little, but keeps a mineral side, fresh! A very good dram, young surely, but full of vigor!
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Flavor has notes of fruits, flowers, peat and little smoke. Taste has elements of spices and peat. Finish is peaty with spices (pepper?) and a little bit sharp at the end. IMHO the drink is much better then 8 y.o. "Port Askaig".
Good basic cask strength smoker from Islay
Very similar on the nose to the Port Askaig 8. So I guess it is the same one, just younger and straight from the cask. I like this one more that Port Askaig 8. It seems strangely smoother as well. I heard, that it is seven years old. That seems to fit in my opinion.
Cream, citrus, blue apples, not irritating but ardbeg's smoke and peat
light straw in color, oil movement in the glass, thick and slow tears
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| Нос | 80 | a nice spicy smoke smell , wood fire , campfire smoke , licorice , and salty , a sea scent during a walk on the beach , the alcohol is surprisingly soft in the nose , hint of ham meat with fruity notes . Nice |
| Вкус | 83 | sweet, fruity, bam come in firmly ... nice full whisky, velvet in the mouth, volatile, the alcohol does its job, spicy, may add some water. a full ash taste hahaha no pleasant smoke feeling. firm and velvet |
| Финиш | 82 | dry, woody, long and hints of sweetness |
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698:-
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Good price for a nice islay whisky, but cam certainly feel its youth
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| Нос | 83 | starts with an expressive islay nose, peat, lemons, sea air... |
| Вкус | 82 | pretty much the same as the nose, but the youth feels: some sourness, brutality untamed... |
| Финиш | 80 | gets a little to dry and sour, quite long and overall o.k |
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A superb peated whisky for a good relationship between pleasure and taste, very balanced. A salty-sweet peat. It was sounded to him a subjective note that would be a 85
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Port Askaig 100 Proof (57.1%). At a guided tasting at Milroy's Soho, Feb 2019. The host advised that this is an older bottling and is from Caol Ila. Pale. Aroma is buttercandy, buttermints, some Caramac bar, plastic, some coated pencils. Taste - the vibe from aroma carries through, also very salty and flinty but versus some toffee and faint estery raspberry and candyfloss. Obvious alcohol, faint oak. Quite an unusual profile. Doesn't quite come together for me. Does build a nice wood linger over time. The host advises that this older batch was replaced by a new similar recipe. Newer bottlings may have a more coherent profile. 3.1/74
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Sour, punching nose new make, medicine, salted butter, spicy, sweet, ginger, sweet smoke, malt only after 20 min of patience - Caol Ila showing the face
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A very good nose plus an above average palate equals a good rating.
Very oriented on the fermented and lacustrine peat, this islay then turns on sweeter notes honey of acacia and orange blossom ... Whisky little complex and young but has a lot of charm because behind the peat lies a world more silky and peppery to see ginger confit ... To discover ... To be concise: a good dailly dram for a peat evening ;-)
This was based on a sample. Nose; peat, smoke and bbq'd ham taste; warming, more peat and spices. With a second attempt there is also something refreshing; citrus perhaps? Finish; short, peaty, drying. Overall; Good value for money.
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I took a chance on this and I am glad I did because I loved it and so will any peathead .
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| Нос | 89 | If you could smell underwater, this is what the coast of Islay would smell like, lots of sea delights. It's very earthy but earth after a storm. Just a slightly soiled horses stable this time with warm old engine oil. There are also some light fruit notes. The nose itself is quite tame compared to the taste. |
| Вкус | 91 | For such a high strength, this is right on the money and no water necessary. Again it's very earthy and thick with no dryness at all considering it's like a bonfire in the mouth and it's crackling away nicely. Lots of brine that mix with the barley and fruit notes. I gave the daughter a taste and she said it tastes like TCP. It doesn't because if it did I wouldn't be drinking it. But I know what she means. |
| Финиш | 88 | The finish is medium to long with a swirling of fruit notes and liquorice. Just a wee metallic note on the death. |
Quite a monolithic beast. When first opened, I was pretty sure this was just another solid but more or less average young heavy peater, elevated by it's natural presentation. And yes, It's simple, it didn't surprise me, but it doesn't get boring as well, and it also doesn't have any flaws worthy of mention, and man, if you add quite some water, and have some patience with your dram, this really delivers! If this were older and had some clever wood treatment edge to it, this is 90 points territory no doubt.
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Dram 2, July 23, 2020 at 25 degrees
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| Нос | 85 | Sweetness, reminiscent of caramel and malt and mildly enveloping the smell of smoke; later there are red peppers, hazelnuts and a hint of milk chocolate. You can feel the strength of 100% proof in the nose. |
| Вкус | 83 | Peat and salt initially appear somewhat gruff with the strength of the alcohol, light malt note. Overall, it could be a bit more balanced for me, the taste components change a bit roughly. The transitions become increasingly round with each sip, with a pleasant combination of smoke and sweetness. |
| Финиш | 82 | Medium-long finish, a dry smoky taste remains in the mouth, the sweetness evaporates. quickly. |
An amazing, wonderful, raw smokehouse that everyone who likes smokehouses must enjoy. Iodine, bandages, salted butter, juicy apples and lemons, freshly ground pepper, a little burnt skin and roasted meat... Very good Islay Single malt at a reasonable price! Well done!
A fiery young whisky already mature! A very interesting aromatic field, a perfect balance and an instant pleasure. This Port Askaig 100 proof is a success. His only fault would be the final, far too poor for my taste. But, we will forgive him! A report quality / price rare by the times that run!
magnificent whisky, alcohol content (57.1 °), is not a handicap, a beautiful lightness. finesse a zest of strength. in short, a peat of islay which does not decide.
A good smoky peat NAS is from Ayla, everything is in a traditional way, well balanced, a drink, powerful and rich, good work with the fortress.
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Honest, straightforward Islay punch. Nice balanced. Sweetness and smoke.
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| Нос | 83 | Intense, ham, smoke, leather, sweetness. Long-lasting. |
| Вкус | 81 | Despite the high alcohol content drinkable without water. Of course better if he stands for something. Strong start. Immediately ham and smoke, right after sweetie. He keeps what the nose promises. |
| Финиш | 82 | Medium long, dry, fruit flavors, smoke always in the background. |
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notes from a blind tasting.
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| Нос | 85 | meaty peatsmoke, smoke dried ham, vanilla, melon |
| Вкус | 84 | bit hard, ashy, solid in alcohol, |
| Финиш | 83 | dark pure chocolate and smoke |
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Sharp, powerful, young peater. More of a minerally peatiness. Has some of those ashy elements I expect from a Caol Ila and yet I feel like it is more in the camp of younger, more naked Lagavulins like the 8yo and 12yo. This is great because I’m getting it for one-third the price of Laga12 now. It may not hold up against that monolithic malt, but close enough for the price! Definitely benefits from opening up for a while in the bottle and the addition of water makes it less sharp and more enjoyable. A very solid value for such a high proof Islay.
The weather has just turned here and I'm feeling cold, which can only mean one thing: Peat Season is now in session. Enter Port Askaig 100°. I haven't had anything from the brand since my wife bought me a bottle of the 16 year old, but I had high hopes for a young, high ABV bottling from what I assume is actually Caol Ila. The nose is pretty simple but ticks the expected young islay boxes of sweet citrus, a little vanilla and bags of peat. It does come off a bit spirity, but not offputtingly so. It's possible to kind of smell around it, if you know what I mean. Not that there's too much else going on there. The palate is where the action is, kicking off with a very thick vanilla-cream approach, speckled with lime zest. There's just enough time for that to register before the spice of impetuous youth shows up with a variety of instantly warming elements that are punchy but not hot and very complementary to the otherwise quite basic makeup of the midsection. These elements blend together and continue into the finish as a rolling buzz that's joined by smokey and dry ash, salinity and more thickly sweet and lemon infused malt. I broke out my bottle of Wee Beastie for a quick comparison and the PA is definitely sweeter, hotter and less smokey. I'm going to use the rest of this sample in my Islay only infinity bottle.
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