Review: Talisker Magma 47 Years Old

The use of barrels toasted with hot volcanic rocks are, believe it or not, not a new idea, as Dewar’s dropped a magma-toasted barrel bottling last year. That’s not going to dull our enthusiasm for this release from Talisker, though, which at 47 years of age is the oldest distillery release to date and one of its rarest, with just 622 bottles produced (105 in the U.S.). The full production details look like this: The whisky was first matured in refill American oak hogsheads before bei