anCnoc Rutter

AnCnoc’s Peaty Collection consists of releases that refer to utensils used to harvest peat: Barrow, Tushkar, Rutter, Flaughter, Cutter and Rascan, further upholstered with Peatheart and Peatlands. Today I’ll try the Rutter expression, that appeared in 2014.

The peat is immediately apparent, but leaves more than enough room for vanilla, eucalyptus and apples to play around. Hint of banana. Lovely notes of both mud and band-aids. I guess it’s a style you need to like, which I do. Lots of heather too. Something floral indeed. Does appear to relatively young.

Oily body, that’s good. Very fruity on apples and peach, followed by menthol and peat. A nice salty edge appears. Then honey and pepper. A bitterness as if from a lemon pith. The strength is fine and does not need any water.

The finish is rather short on apples, lemon juice and vanilla, followed by some pepper and the peat smoke. At the death it turns a tad bitter, but nothing to worry about.

I like this as much as I do Ardmore, to be honest. A nice tasting experience.

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