Taster

Nose: Extraordinary fruit: cherries mainly but some fresh grape, too. Very winey and this drifts in and out of the peat gathering in intensity.

Palate: Immediately spicy, but the peat arrives with a beautifully clean grape. Peat dominates over coffee.

Finish: Some salty notes are added to the coffee and the fabulously lingering peat. Long and satisfying.

Comment: A big improvement on the first version with much more fruit, body and intensity. Beautiful.

Score: 9

Taster

Nose: Fresh attack, with hits of peat, tar, sulphur and salt, soothed with beeswax.

Palate: Rich and extremely sweet, then smoky, becoming medicinal and eventually seaweedy.

Finish: Pepper, salt, sand.

Comment: The wrestling match between distillery character and Pedro Ximinez finish ends, at length, in a draw.

Score: 9.5