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Dit is de allereerste geturfde whisky die Bimber uitbrengt. Er was al geturfde new make en ongeturfde whisky van peated casks, maar eindelijk is er nu the real thing. De spirit werdt in mei 2019 gedistilleerd. Rijping vond plaats op bourbonvaten. In 2022 zijn er 1.140 flessen met een vatsterkte van 54.1% gebotteld.
Uitgebreide informatie
De Bimber Distillery werd in 2016 door een groep whiskyvrienden opgericht. Het streven is om traditionele methoden te gebruiken. De gebruikte gerst komt voor 100% van hun eigen boerderij. De distilleerderij heeft zijn eigen moutvloer en het mashen gebeurt met de hand. Met zeven dagen is de fermentatie ook aan de lange kant. De houten washbacks komen uit de eigen kuiperij. De pot stills werken met directe verhitting. Rijping en botteling van de whisky vinden ook op de distilleerderij zelf plaats. Het eerste vat werd gevuld op 26 mei 2016. De eerste whisky, genaamd The First, werd in september 2019 in een gelimiteerde uitgave van 1.000 flessen uitgebracht.
Proefnotitie
Tasting notes Ruben Luyten, whiskynotes.be, 87 punten:
Bimber The 1st Peated (54,1%, OB 2022, 1140 btl.) Nose: cold and damp cigarette smoke, if that makes sense, with some unexpected coastal side to it. Dried seaweed, a few dusty notes and lots of charcoal notes. Hints of cigar boxes and burnt mint leaves. Underneath there are sweet orchard fruits and hints of citrus zest. Even a hint of pineapple juice appears. Then something of wet cardboard as well, but it fits this profile. Mouth: an interesting style of smoke that I can’t relate to other distilleries. Some of the early peated Benriach bottlings spring to mind – it’s not a heavy hitter I’d say. Then quite some bright lemony notes, followed by Granny Smith but also hints of icing sugar with lemon. Then a hint of dark chocolate appears, with tobacco and wood char. Some herbal notes come out too. A nice gradual evolution towards darker flavours. Finish: medium length, more warming now, with crushed peppercorns, cigar boxes and a refreshing gingery note. While the youth is easy to note, it’s clear that Bimber master the art of distilling by now. The peat level is moderate, yet there’s a nice combination of fresher notes and darker flavours. We’ll keep an eye on this.
Tasting notes Serge Valentin, whiskyfun.com, 86 punten:
Bimber 'The 1st Peated' (54.6%, OB, England, 1,140 bottles, 2022) Four stars That's the thing, when friends ask you whether this or that distillery makes peated or plain, all you're able to answer now is: 'both'. But it's good fun to witness all these heirs of Ledaig, Longrow or Brora in action. Colour: gold. Nose: less entertaining, but much cleaner and straighter than the Namibian, as we would have expected. Somewhat in the style of peated Chichibu, even if it would tend to display more earths, ashes and leaves, and perhaps less straight lemons. Very faintly mouldy. With water: mud, damp chalk, wool and even tiny whiffs of wet dog (again, we're sorry, dogs!) Mouth (neat): lapsang and resins over some rich and creamy fruitiness, it is almost as if they had smoked some classic readymade ex-bourbon Bimber. Of course that's not what they've been doing (but you can buy smoked water, min you!) but it does feel a bit like a turbo look on an old Porsche. Which, to be honest, I've now got a fondness for, isn't everything only a matter of time? With water: fresh and tangy. Salty smoke. Finish: medium, with lemons and seawater. Seawater from the River Thames? Also tangerines and a very small oyster. Comments: possibly only medium peated, and/but certainly very excellent and flawless. My main problem, and that's me of course, is that I just cannot get Islay (and Brora) out of my head whenever I try a peater. Perhaps a story of chance and necessity… But yeah, excellent, as expected. SGP:555 - 86 points.Gewijzigd op: 2024-11-22
