Nose

Fruit cake with fresh orange peel, hazelnuts and walnuts. Releasing the serpent morphs those cake characters into biscuits instead – Garibaldis, to be precise.

Palate

A soft velvet mouthfeel with fruit cake flavours and sweet spice turns to dry, grainy white pepper with lemon peel and walnuts.

Finish

Chocolate caramel drops and chopped nuts with a slightly bitter tinge – walnuts and Brazil nuts, mainly.

Comment

Sugar and spice and all things nice, that’s what this Scottish dram is made of.