But wait, wasn’t this reviewed already?

Yes it is. Correct. However, this is a whisky that was ‘dynamically aged’ on the Thalassa, sailing across the Atlantic a couple of times before being bottled in Terschelling.

Joris, of Dam Dranken on Terschelling gave me a sample of the original whisky as it was before some extra maturation at sea. A great way of comparing between boat-aging and just plain old warehouse aging!

Sniff:
A very heavy nose with quite a young character. Alcohol heat, porridge. Very spirity with an almost eau-de-vie quality to it. After a little while there are more notes of barley and shortbread.

Sip:
Very young and spirity on the palate too. It is quite hot with a lot of chili pepper and alcohol. Porridge, fudge, lots of oats and barley. There’s some oak, but it’s rather green all in all.

Swallow:
The finish is still hot. Far more hot than I would have expected and that’s something new. Slightly iron-y, but mostly alcohol spirit and a whiff of grains.

I quite liked the finished product, but this one is a different story. The extra aging really added some smoothing of the spirit, and imparted quite a bit of oak flavor to the whisky. It’s miraculous how this one tastes too young and spirity, and the final bottled version is very different. Great too compare!

80/100