Valinch & Mallet Islay Malt corno apricot and pear

apricot and pear

On the palate it is enhanced with full-bodied notes of honey and candied fruit

exclusively matured in ex-Sherry barrels

macerating on the skins for 10 days and then refining for three years in Slavonian oak barrels and completing their maturation in glass

tannic and almost ethereal red wine

Valinch & Mallet Islay Malt corno apricot and pearValinch & Mallet, the young but already experienced independent Italian bottler, has selected this young 8 year old from the various releases of 2016, coming from a "secret" distillery on the south coast of the Isle of Islay. Trying it, I don't think it will be at all difficult for you to understand that this is the distillery that starts with L and ends with a letter other than G and which celebrated its bicentenary last year (still young, but they