Taster

Nose: Fruity seaweed.

Palate: Freshly medicinal. Salty. Rooty, liquorice-like, maltiness.

Finish: Iron. Iodine. Pepper.

Comment: Both the name and the medicinal character suggests the distillery of origin.

Score: 8

Taster

Nose: At first glance soft and aloof but revealing a complex array of iodiney-salty smoky notes, sweet malt and drier oak. All very laid-back.

Palate: Sweet malt then a tidal wave of massive peat. Toffee-vanilla oak follows before more peat.

Finish: Long, lip-smacking and spicy. There is a toasty dryness and coffee-chocolate afterglow.

Comment: One of the finest, intense and complex single cask Islay has bottled in the last five years.

Score: 9