Talisker 18-year-old

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Talisker 18-year-old

Category	Single Malt Whisky from
District	Isle of Skye
Bottler	Distillery Bottling
Bottled	21.03.2005
Age	18 years old
Strength	45.8 % Vol.
Bottle size	700 ml
Availability
Price	± € 77.00 \| £ 65.99 \| $ 99.63

Added: 11 Jul. 2007 8:44 pm

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Notes & Reviews

markjedi1

posted 3 Feb. 2013

markjedi1 gave this whisky 89 points

Color

Yellow gold

Nose

What a fruity nose! Soft and creamy on peaches and apple sauce. Orangettes and vanilla custard. Soft honey. The peat is discreet and there is no salt to speak of. After a few moments, I even get some espresso and baked banana. Mint and chocolate. Well, After Eight delights. Magnificent.

Taste

It is oily on the palate and remains very sweet on yellow fruits before exploding in a mix of peppers, liquorice, leather and marzipan. Clear sherry influences. The peat is still discrete. Midpalate, the orangettes return with a salty twist. Nice balance.

Finish

In the medium long finish, it is the smoke and pepper that lingers the longest.

Comments

A great, complex, wonderfully sweet and salty, balanced Talisker. A Classic.

Mark Dermul Toshan Man

Furtia

posted 10 Dec. 2012

Furtia gave this whisky 85 points

Weighted rate

85

Nose - aroma

87

Initial taste

85

Body

85

Finish

84

Price

84

Presentation

85

Jonkers

posted 20 Nov. 2012

Jonkers gave this whisky 89 points

Color

Amontillado sherry

Nose

peaty but not that much. Citrus and vanilla. A bit salty (seaweed). Also hay and sawdust. Mint and chocolate (after-eight) and a bit resinous.

Taste

fullbodied and oily. A little bbq-smoke. Then enormously sweet (vanilla). Also citrus (orange and mandarin).

Finish

smoke stays but is not unpleasant. Very sweet. Longlasting and mouthfilling.

Comments

very tastefull whisky as a digestif. Not that fierce explosion of pepper that you get from the 10 year old Talisker.

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D3US

posted 19 Nov. 2012

D3US gave this whisky 94 points

Color

Deep copper

Nose

Peat but not a smidgeon medicinal. Strong oak, salty. Vanilla sweetness, slightly spicy. Citrus fruit, wood dust and soft leather. Chocolate and loads of other things going on.

Taste

Holy lord this is good. So sweet and so typical Talisker, with that smoky edge. Very dry up until the swallow, then mouth watering sweetness, where the smoke is the perfect ally to the citrus fruit, the lovely oak, vanilla and malt. The big Talisker bang doesn't really show up, making this gentle and lovely.

Finish

Long and delicious. Like a warming fire after a cold and wet day. The oak and vanilla stick around as the smoke wraps everything up into a great finish.

Comments

This has to be my favorite Talisker expression to date, together with the 25 year old. What a joy to taste and what a must have.

Alex

posted 14 Oct. 2012

Alex gave this whisky 90 points

Color

Amber

Nose

Elegant peat, lots of honey, dried fruits (citrus), anised. Very rounded. Keeps changing. Refined and elegant. Love it.

Taste

Compact mouthfeel, little oily. Quite rich, sweet honey again, sweet dried citrus fruits. Very close to the nose. Subtle peat smoke. Mildly spiced. Excellent balance. Yummie.

Finish

Long, on a sweet-dry-and little bitter rope.

Comments

Not a big and bold whisky, but very refined with superb balance. Classic!

Igor

posted 18 Aug. 2012

Igor gave this whisky 92 points

Color

Deep gold

Nose

Full-flavoured, versatile and complex. Cocoa, vanilla, sweet berries (strawberry?), green apple, ointment, shoe polish.

Taste

Iodine, pepper, sweet smoke, vanilla ice-cream, bitter tones of old wood.

Finish

Long, lingering, intense. Sea salt, hot spices, incense. Excellent balance.

Comments

If you ask me, I think ten-year-old Talisker is pretty good indeed. This one, however, is simply fabulous! Far and away better.

Opinions are like assholes - everybody's got one.

Dekyriel

posted 3 Jul. 2012

Dekyriel gave this whisky 91 points

Color

Deep copper

Nose

The smell of the tides, TCP, coal, hints of barbecue cooked meat, along with its ashes, vanilla, sweet ripe fruits (plum?)

Taste

Gently peated, tar hits the tastebuds, then becomes salty, vanilla again hiding behind chili pepper, the ripe fruits keep happening, malt is present, hints of oak. Grows into leather and chocolate on the tongue eventually

Finish

Long and warm, keeps coming back, the pepper coats the mouth, more plum and toffee leave a print.

Comments

A love story that keeps happening, a favourite and well distinguishable flavour. Thank you Talisker.

New in the land of whisky tasting, having a great time!

TheMue

posted 2 Jun. 2012

TheMue gave this whisky 92 points

Color

Old gold

Nose

Salty but also sweet; some seaweed and berries; wonderful toffee.

Taste

Soft and warm with nuts and a bit smoke. Rich and concentrated.

Finish

Warm, soft and complex; spices; long lasting.

Comments

HunterRomario

posted 29 May. 2012

HunterRomario gave this whisky 86 points

Color

Russetmuscat

Nose

Ve vůni vyzrálé ovoce v takovém zastřenějším kouřovém hávu, působí překvapivě nasládle.Není určitě tak vyrazná jako 10y, i Talisker DE 1999 je ve vyraznosti dál.

Taste

V chuti delikátní, napřed se zdá jemná, ale klame tělem, po chvíli čekání se projeví její hutnost, ostré koření (pepřovost/hřebíček), a úplně nakonec nastoupí druhá fáze dochutě-kouřovost s jemnym dozníváním peprnosti.
Vůbec dochuť je asi největší devizou téhle whisky.

Finish

Comments

Myslím, ze kdybych měl víc času na seznámení a prozkoumání, přišel bych jí na chuť ještě víc. Má určitě něco do sebe, sama o sobě je to velmi slušná whisky, v přímém srovnání se špičkovym DE 1999 a ještě lepším Taliskerem 10y, i vzhledem k ceně, je trochu pozadu.

Drochaid

posted 15 Apr. 2012

Drochaid gave this whisky 86 points

Farbe: Bernstein

Nase: fruchtig nach Pflaumen, Orangenschale. Karamell und
ein rauchiger Hintergrund.

Körper: voll, schmeichelnd, sanft

Gaumen: Zuerst suess, dann intensiver mit einem Hauch Rauch.
Wärmend.

Abgang: Mittellang. Angenehme, typische Chilischaerfe.

Astronavigatrix

posted 23 Dec. 2011

Astronavigatrix gave this whisky 89 points

Color

Deep gold

Nose

Smokey, bonfire, vanilla, sweet fuitiness, smoked sausages

Taste

Sweet, honey, fruity...then some peat comes through and some pepper, even a bit of chili

Finish

peat, bonfire, oak and pepper. Medium to long...smooth

Comments

Takes very little water before it drownes

Master Quill

posted 23 Nov. 2011

Master Quill gave this whisky 85 points

Score is an average

Bottle from 2004 scored 85, bottle from 2006 scored 84

You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

Willie JJ

posted 18 Nov. 2011

Willie JJ gave this whisky 90 points

Color

Deep gold

Nose

An amazing, delivery of soft fruits over-ripening in a bowl with a slightly smoky fire in the room. A hint of malt extract in an open can near the bowl.

Taste

This dram is amazing! The initial coating of malty honey on the tongue rushes back across your palate with an inhalation of the smoke from the fire. It dances on the tongue telling different stories in different parts of your mouth. Its full bodied, but not hugely oily in texture.

Finish

The finish is fantastic. The whisky just seems to keep bursting into life again unpredictably, first here, then there. Takes ages to fade. Pretty sure it will still be teasing me tomorrow.

Comments

Its truly magnificent. I don't know if I'm concentrating harder on it now than I have previously, but this bottle has been open for a few months and its nearly finished now and if anything the whisky is still improving. Fantastic!

It's better to have drunk it all than never to have drunk at all.

Collector57

posted 7 Sep. 2011

Color

Deep gold

Nose

Much softer peat than the younger versions. And this time there's a fruitiness behind it with the malt much easier to detect too. This a much gentler experience than the 10 or 12

Taste

Again a gentler peat but still with a peppery flavour. Nice oaky spices in there after a few seconds. Then the peat comes back and continues into the finish

Finish

which has loads of peat and some more of the fruity notes. Spicy malt in there too.

Comments

This is a superbly well-balanced dram. If Talisker gets even better as it gets older, I wish I had some 20 or 25yo!

Feusi

posted 5 Aug. 2011

Feusi gave this whisky 90 points

Some smoke, a little sea, sweet wood. On the palate, a sweet woody dram with a hint of smoke and sea. A suitably conditioned Talisker. Warming in the evening and quite suitable as the last dram before you go home. But is less than a Taslisker 20ies etc.

Timo

posted 12 Jun. 2011

Timo gave this whisky 86 points

Color

Burnished

Nose

Die Nase ist fast lieblich. Sherry, fassig, angenehm, gefällig.

Taste

Der Geschmack ist komplex. S�¼ss, torfig, rauchig, pfeffrig, Chili, leicht bitter.

Finish

Der Abgang ist kurz. Weich, rauchig, warm, später noch wärmender.

Comments

Ein sehr sehr guter Talsiker. Eine tolle Standardabf�¼llung.

dankin

posted 15 Apr. 2011

dankin gave this whisky 87 points

Color

Amber

Nose

Nice smell of sweet fruits, some smooth peatiness (a lot less than the 10 yo)and also oak. This is a mouthwatering Talisker Nose.

Taste

Punchy, peppery attack followed by some sweet and slightly peaty flavours. Again some oak

Finish

very long, dry Finish

Comments

I like it very much. Its not as peaty as the 10yo but it has a realy nice Nose and Taste. The Aftertaste seems to want to stay forever.

CrilleVBG

posted 22 Sep. 2010

CrilleVBG gave this whisky 86 points

Color

Amontillado sherry

Nose

Very fresh. Oak, toffee and vanilla. And in the background there is a nice sweet aroma.

Taste

Fresh and smooth. Lots of oaky flavors and a hint of peat.

Finish

Medium long finish, with spicy notes.

Comments

Lovely nose, good depth. The taste is smooth, but I want more flavors.

"The last time we drank whisky, we started returning things we never stole"

SilentStill

posted 29 Jan. 2010

SilentStill gave this whisky 90 points

Color

Russetmuscat

Nose

Erkennbar reifer und milder als der 10yo mit einer schÃ¶nen maritimen Frische, krÃ¤ftig erdigen Aromen und einer, gemessen wiederum am 10yo mÃ¤ÃŸigen Rauchnote. Immer wieder mal macht sich auch eine dezente SÃ�¼ÃŸe bemerkbar.

Taste

Satte, feuchte Erde, mildere Pfeffer- und Torfrauchnoten, jedoch durchaus prÃ¤sent. Wiederum leicht sÃ�¼ÃŸlich.

Finish

Auch beim GenieÃŸen eines 18yo. braucht man auf die WÃ¤rmeexplosion im Rachen nicht zu verzichten und dies zudem auch noch mit beachtlicher LÃ¤nge.

Comments

Ohne Frage einer der besten OA seines Alters und seiner Preiskategorie in guter TrinkstÃ¤rke.

swampthing09

posted 7 May. 2009

swampthing09 gave this whisky 89 points

Andrew brought a bottle on our annual Hendrickson expedition to the AuSable this year.

Nose Peat, seaweed,

No tasting note of Talisker is complete without the notice of the overwhelming pepper which strikes at first taste. This is followed by the salt tang. When a small amount of water is added, the sweetness of honey or toffee mingles with the richness of the malt.

The pepper returns at the finish and holds on.

leehuan

posted 10 Nov. 2008

leehuan gave this whisky 90 points

Color

Auburn

Nose

Heavily peated - tar, oily, medicine

Taste

overwhelming warm, straight and full bodied

Finish

Long-lasting

Comments