anCnoc Rascan Peated Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Rascan is anCnoc's lightly peated Highland malt — 11.1 ppm, named for the tool used to strip turf from a peat bank — bottled at 46%, and Whisky Advocate scored it 87 for sweet smoke, ripe peach, and a hint of barbecue. John Morrison built Knockdhu on Knock Hill in Banffshire in 1894, choosing the site partly for the peat nearby; Inver House bought it in 1988 and rebranded the whisky anCnoc, Gaelic for the hill, and the distillery's peated series names each release for a peat-cutting tool — Rutter, Flaughter, Tushkar, Cutter, Rascan — with the ppm on the label. Rascan is Highland malt from barley peated to 11.1 ppm, matured in American oak, and bottled at 46% without chill filtration. Whisky Advocate: sweet smoke with ripe peaches and a hint of barbecue on the nose, then vanilla and florals; apple, vanilla fudge, and peat smoke on the palate, the smoke fading to citrus, oak, and chile. Drams of Whisky and The Whisky Study both note the Knockdhu apple-and-honey core under gentle smoke. Honest note: peat for people who don't love peat — a Highland fruit-and-honey malt with a campfire in the distance, for the Speyside drinker easing toward Islay and the smoked-fruit-compote crowd. Neat or with a drop of water. Rascan, 11.1 ppm.

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