Talisker 57 North 0,7 l

Single Skye Malt Whisky, 57%vol

This special strength Talisker is named after the high latitude at which you’ll find the distillery. No malt is more remote. Talisker 57° North comes from specially selected American Oak casks, chosen to express with absolute purity the natural combination of sweetness and power, of which talisker alone is capable. Bottling at 57% ABV (once called ‘100 proof’) further brings out this unique strength of character.

Coloured with caramel.
 

Producer: Talisker Distillery, Carbost, Isle of Skye, IV47 8SR, Scotland

Talisker's soft, peaty process water is drawn from twenty-one underground springs that rise from Hawk Hill (Cnoc nan Speirag) beside the distillery. These same springs have fed Talisker from the beginning. As its name suggests, the hill is home to birds of prey, usually including Peregrines.

Today, 20,000 gallons an hour of cooling water from the fast running Carbost Burn fill a traditional Talisker feature - five wooden "worm tubs", located outside the still house.

Talisker's two wash stills, carefully recreated after the 1960 fire, are unique. The lye pipes leading off from the main neck are U-shaped, to trap vapours from the first distillation before they reach the outside worm tubs, whilst a small secondary copper pipe carries the vapours so trapped back to the wash stills for a second distillation.

Faithfully following the original design, it is believed that this double distillation ensures that all of Talisker’s rich, deep character is captured first time. So there is, indeed, nothing withdrawn or reserved about Talisker - a fact confirmed for visitors whose first experience before they take the distillery tour, is a taste of the malt itself.

Talisker embodies all the spirit of this rocky, storm-lashed island and its strong, steadfast people. Skye's only distillery this may be, but like the men of the island the malt has character enough for ten.