South Shore Islay 8 Years (Valinch Mallet)

Valinch & Mallet is a fairly young independent bottler headquartered in London but run by two Italians Davide Romano and Fabio Ermoli.

In the past couple of years they’ve released a nice series of whiskies and rums, all un-chill filtered and natural colour, most of them at cask strength.

There are four Valinch & Mallet collections: Hidden Casks (under 20 years, silver plaque), Lost Drams (over 20 years, bronze plaque), XO (over 30 years, gold plaque) and the Young series (with a lower ABV).

We’ll start with an older release and look at some upcoming releases later. South Shore Islay...