Scapa 12 Years Old

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 5 by Michael Jackson and Jim Murray.

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Tasting Notes

Michael Jackson Nose Soft. Hay, with a hint of oily chocolate and vanilla. Warm. Palate Smooth. Chocolate, vanilla, nuts. Very lively and appetising. Finish Late salt and pepper, with a hint of rooty peat. Comment Scapa can seem a delicate whisky, but it is full of flavours, and deserves it growing following.

Jim Murray Nose An essay in elegance with a delicate honey note attached to the malt and heather. The smokelessness and resulting lack of weight easily distinguishes it from a Highland Park, despite the honey-heather. Palate Immediately malty and rich with a delicious spicy tingling of old oak. The honey holds the middle and interplays with the drier oak notes and juicier malt. Wonderfully complex. Finish Cocoa-rich notes and biscuity maltiness makes for a quite weighty finale, and some curious smoke even wafts in from somewhere. Comment