Inchfad (Loch Lomond) 2007-2021 | 14 Year Old North Star Spirits

Highland Single Malt Whisky
Bottled By North Star Spirits 70cl / 49%

North Star have unearthed another gem with this 2007 Inchfad, which nowadays could be considered as a lost single malt from an operating distillery.

Inchfad was one of Loch Lomond's experimental heavily-peated single malts made on Lomond stills, but the Inchfad name has now been officially retired for this style and now is only used internally to refer to a different type of blending stock at the distillery.

Anyhoo, there's evidently still some of Loch Lomond's old-school Inchfad out in the wild, as evidenced by North Star's rather tempting Inchfad 2007, bottled in 2021 as a 14-year-old from an Oloroso sherry barrique, no less, which yielded 234 bottles at 49%. Peat and sherry fans take note.

Attributes

Tasting Notes

Nose: Hot apple cider, smoky ginger green tea and marshmallows.

Palate: All spice in black coffee and charred wood.

Finish: Long - damp leaves, sweet ash smoke and burnt porridge.