I have always liked AnCnoc distillery from my first taste of the grassy 12 year old. When I needed to reduce my credit card bill and offload some bottles at auction for whatever I could get it damn near broke my heart to give away the 24 year old.

AnCnoc product both unpeated and peated whisky. The 12 year old is completely without phenol contact but this Peatheart release is a heavily peated variant.

The Whisky

The packaging and bottle look fantastic with black glass married to white and gold lettering. Really looks premium but at £50 ish for these bottles at 46% ABV they are great value. AnCnoc don’t use colouring or filtering and while those of us who like to try new things know AnCnoc is a distillery to buy when you can find it, they are quite the unsung hero in the grand scheme of things.

Tasting Notes

Colour	light yellow
Nose	similar grassy notes you might find in the 12 year old just with a generous BBQ sauce on top to help it go down
Palate	Warm apple pie with peat smoke and burnt pasty notes
Finish	great long ashy peaty smoky finish with fresh orchard apples, lemon zest and buttered toast

Final Thoughts

It’s been a while since I have had a glass of AnCnoc and they haven’t changed from the first glass I tried. I might have changed, new wife, new life and lots more grey hair but this grassy spirit is still the same. And I am all the happier for it.