Nose

Floral honey apple and apricot. Medicinal peat runs through it and accentuates! With time a touch of crunchy, sugar coated barley and dusty, toffeed oak emerges.

Palate

Fuller and grittier than the nose, stout tannic spices on show. Mature honey, the oak really comes through on the middle. The barley and fruitiness of the spirit just about balance that.

Finish

Very long and citric. Quite mouth-watering with light peat and violets. A little drying and salty. That’s an intense finale!

Comment

Bottled in the nick of time. Any longer in the cask and the oak would dominate.