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3rd Party Tasting Notes
Pale amber. Sea spray, iodine, and charred peat aromas are appealing. A supple, round, medium-bodied palate with charred grain and herbal notes. Finishes with a trace of sweet malt and a lash of ashy oak spice. Like a lighter style of Islay whisky.
Lombard
Nose: Straight from the kiln. Sooty. Haddocky. Sea spray. Bog myrtle. Apples cooked under ashes. Seductive.
Palate: You get what you nose but in a tame manner. Smoked sea-scallops, salted buttered fudge.
Finish: Firm and crisp, reluctantly fading away like the sun sinking into the sea.
Comment: A 'love it or hate it' islander. Bold and uncompromising. And so charming.
Rating: 90/100
Palate: You get what you nose but in a tame manner. Smoked sea-scallops, salted buttered fudge.
Finish: Firm and crisp, reluctantly fading away like the sun sinking into the sea.
Comment: A 'love it or hate it' islander. Bold and uncompromising. And so charming.
Rating: 90/100
Martine Nouet, Whisky Magazine #23
Nose: Immediate robust peatiness: tar, creosote, spent barbecue, sand dunes, tarry twine and a smokehouse jammed full of herring.
Palate: Everything the nose suggests but water dissipates its flavours rather than bringing them out, showing a lack of mid-palate richness.
Finish: Rooty, smoky with some nice oily qualities.
Comment: The name says it all. Big and bold but it's all smoke and no trousers.
Rating: 70/100
Palate: Everything the nose suggests but water dissipates its flavours rather than bringing them out, showing a lack of mid-palate richness.
Finish: Rooty, smoky with some nice oily qualities.
Comment: The name says it all. Big and bold but it's all smoke and no trousers.
Rating: 70/100
Dave Broom, Whisky Magazine #23
Big and smoky, but with a rich, balancing, malty underbelly. Tarry rope, leafy bonfire, rooty peat, burnt licorice, smoked seaweed, coal ash, and vanilla-tinged malt, all with emerging brine, subtle Spanish olive and a hint of ginger. A robust, yet well-rounded, Islay-style whisky with a pleasing oily texture. I do wish it had a higher strength for a little more attitude, though.
John Hansell, Malt Advocate
The Blender: Lombard
| Established: 1960 |
| Silent since: False |
| Address: Bourne House, College Street, Ramsey, Isle of Man, IM8 1JW British Isles |
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Lombard Scotch Whisky was established in the 1960s when the company began to lay down fillings at the distilleries and hold, mature and bottle from its own stocks. Lombard entered the market as suppliers of bulk whisky to blenders. Administration was established on the Isle of Man (an old Scottish isle between Ireland and Scotland) and a stock base was developed. The 1990s witnessed the malt whisky category develop and Lombard diversify their interests to the cased goods market - the company"s first move to control the utilisation of mature stock.
Lombard is quite possibly the only independent bottler with its main offices on the Isle of Man. The company is a family business with almost 300 years of experience in the wine and whisky trade - although the company Lombard Scotch Whisky Ltd. was not actually established until the 1960"s. The company became involved with whisky via the brewery business. Initially they dealt exclusively with maturing whiskies for blending companies, but in the 1990"s malt whisky became so popular that they started building their own stocks of mature single malt whisky. Their main range of single malts is named "The Jewels of Scotland" - but they also have a single malt in their portfolio by the name of "Pebble Beach". This malt whisky was launched at Pebble Beach, California, USA on Monday 13th November in 2006. The ABV of bottlings ranges from 46% to cask strength and they are not chill filtered or artificially coloured. Apart from single malts their portfolio contains single grains, vatted malts (Anchor Bay, Driftwood, Golden Harvest, Smoking Ember and Tidal Ebb) and blends (Gold Label and Old Masters).
Independent and family owned, Lombard has a family history in the drinks business stretching back almost 300 years. Aside from Scotch Whisky, the family have had ownership of vineyards in France, cork factories in Portugal and breweries in England. The brewery business initiated the family involvement with whisky, when brewers bottled Whisky in addition to producing Beer.
from LombardScotchWhisky.com, Malt Madness