Nose

Light peat smoke gives a perfume to a sweet nose: tablet, demerara sugar, dried fruits (mango as well as grape). Water makes it more phenolic.

Palate

Hot with sweet treacle, black banana, raisin, firm oak and that delicate smoke. Very sweet and honeyed.

Finish

Gentle, long. Good balance.

Comment

Balanced, as whiskies of this age should be but just too sweet for this palate.