World Whiskies Awards 2007
World's Best New Release

Hugely complex: perfumed with dried apricot, pear, orange and cinnamon. There's honey, hazelnut, orange blossom water, spices and light smoke. Intensely concentrated mid-palate with a mass of honeyed red and black fruits, spice, apple. Superb balance and harmony between all the elements. Sweet toffee. Smoke. Proof, if it were needed, that this is a first growth distillery. Dave Broom

Talcum powder, confection, strawberry jam. To taste it has a quaint old fashioned feel, dry as a tinder box and a wisp of smoke. Afairly feminine dram with layers of perfumed talc lingering on the aftertaste. Annabel Meikle

Rich and profound. Caramelised fruit, custard, shortcake and a touch of polished floor on the nose. The same delicious sensation of paradise lost with cooked fruit on the palate. This is a superb late afternoon dram to enjoy for a relaxing moment listening to Beethoven's 7th symphony. Martine Nouet

Primrose, big bold fruits on the nose. Absolutely dripping with style and class. Everything in perfect balance in the mouth, with oddball blackcurrant mixing with hints of smoke and a captivating fruit and malt two step running through its heart. The finish is long and pleasant. Dominic Roskrow

A fantastic dram. Plenty of coconut and exotic fruits. Not to be missed. Thierry Benitah

Michael Jackson

Nose

Buttery richness. Butterscotch pudding. Bread and butter pudding. Honey.

Palate

Astonishingly syrupy smooth. Still evoking thoughts of the sweet trolley, but farther south; the honeyed pastries of the Balkans. Then a suggestion of chocolate powder hints at tiramisu.

Finish

Bitter chocolate. Terry's chocolate oranges.

Comment

The ultimate dessert dram. Beautifully composed.

Dave Broom

Nose

Hugely complex: perfumed with dried apricot, pear, orange and cinnamon. There's honey, hazelnut, orange blossom water, spices and light smoke.

Palate

Intensely concentrated mid-palate with a mass of honeyed red and black fruits, spice, apple. Superb balance and harmony between all the elements.

Finish

Sweet toffee. Smoke.

Comment

Proof, if it were needed, that this is a first-growth distillery.