6.5 (10)
Brand
Big Peat
Expression
Christmas
Whisky type
Blended Malt / Pure Malt / Vatted Malt
Origin
Islay, Scotland
Year launched/bottled
2020
ABV.
51.30%
In collection
53×

Review by Big Peat

Tasting note

An amplification of peat-smoke, dried seaweed and coal dust with an underlying sweetness to his feisty spirit

Note

Whisky Distiller, Douglas Laing & Co, today launches the Big Peat Christmas 2020 bottling, a punchy Cask Strength Limited Edition release that joins the award-winning Islay Malt Scotch Whisky range.

The Glasgow-based family business, released Big Peats first Christmas bottling in 2010. Since then, the iconic Ileach fisherman has enjoyed exponential growth the world over, with a number of market-exclusive bottlings, aged limited releases, innovative cask finishes and a cult following on social media contributing to his success.

This 10th annual festive bottling, depicts Big Peat sporting a Santa Claus hat reflected in a bauble nestled deep within the Christmas tree. As is tradition for the Christmas Edition, he is bottled at a winter-warming Cask Strength of 53.1% and happily offered without colouring or chill-filtration.

Fred Laing, Chairman of his familys firm, comments: Established, indeed born, in 2009, my boy Big Peat is a unique marriage of 100% Single Malts from our preferred Islay distilleries. Accordingly he has many loyal fans of the phenol around the world. In the cask strength Christmas Limited Edition we certainly get to see his more robust and intense side. This year, using our regularly selected Single Cask Single Malts but always in different percentages, expect an amplification of peat-smoke, dried seaweed and coal dust with an underlying sweetness to his feisty spirit. Big Peats Christmas bottling has become synonymous with the festive season and I always look forward to enjoying a dram with him over the holidays.