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Penderyn Celt Peated Single Malt Welsh Whisky 41% 700ml

Penderyn Celt Peated Single Malt Welsh Whisky 41% 700ml
Penderyn Celt Peated Single Malt Welsh Whisky 41% 700ml
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Penderyn Celt Peated Single Malt Welsh Whisky 41% 700ml

SKU: PECELT10 UCAU
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Lightly peated malt with gentle smoke layered over orchard fruit and vanilla.

Wales' only whisky producer using this hybrid pot-column distillation system.

A soft intro to peat, smoky but still approachable and balanced.

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Penderyn Celt Peated Single Malt Welsh Whisky 41% 700ml

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Tasting Notes

A whisper of peat carried on a Welsh wind. Celt is not about brute strength - it's about nuance and restraint. If you're expecting Islay levels of smoke, you'll be disappointed. But if you want a dram where peat is a mood rather than a weapon, this is it.

 

The nose is gently smoky, like an extinguished campfire beside the sea. Smoked applewood, brine, and sweet cereal grains mingle with hints of honey and underripe apricot. There's a clean peat note - more forest floor than hospital bandage - and a mineral tang that smells like wet stone and morning mist.

 

On the palate, the smoke is subtle, but persistent. It drapes over a core of sweet malt, orchard fruit, and a touch of lemon zest. There's a pleasing contrast between the soft, sugary entry and the drying smoke that comes in behind it. Mid-palate reveals roasted grain, cracked pepper, and a faint medicinal note - not iodine, but more eucalyptus or herbal lozenge.

 

The finish is dry, a little saline, with that peated hum lingering under the tongue like distant thunder. There's also a faint vegetal bitterness, like scorched rosemary or charred herbs, which adds grip and complexity.

 

Celt is an excellent gateway to peated whisky, and a quiet reminder that smoke does not need to dominate to make a statement. Drink it neat on a rainy evening or pair with smoked trout, grilled mushrooms, or aged sheep's cheese.

Distillation & Provenance

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Distillation

Penderyn Celt is a peated expression from Penderyn Distillery in the Brecon Beacons, Wales — part of the core Dragon Series range. Like all Penderyn single malts, the spirit is produced in the distillery's bespoke Faraday single pot still — a design by Dr David Faraday that draws spirit at approximately 92% ABV, producing an unusually light and fruity new-make before cask maturation. Penderyn Celt adds a layer of peat smoke character through maturation in specially selected peated casks, rather than peating the barley at the malting stage. The expression balances Penderyn's characteristic light, fruity, vanilla-rich house style from bourbon cask maturation with coastal smoke and gentle medicinal notes from the peated cask influence. Bottled at 41% ABV.

Provenance

Penderyn Distillery is located in the village of Penderyn in the Brecon Beacons, South Wales, and is the first legal commercial whisky distillery to operate in Wales for more than a century. The revival was conceived in the late 1990s by a group of friends in a pub in the Welsh valleys, who established the Welsh Whisky Company and began production in 2000, with the first commercial release sold in 2004 in the presence of the then-Prince of Wales, Charles. The distillery uses its own supply of natural spring water drawn from the Beacons. Penderyn has since expanded to additional sites and is the principal producer of single malt Welsh whisky.

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