Taster

Nose: Light, fresh, fragrant, peat-smoke. Very attractive.

Palate: Firm, biscuity maltiness. Some barley sugar sweetness, developing suggestions of butter. A hint of black treacle. Some sherry.

Finish: Cereal grain oily dryness. Oat-like flavours. Sappy, smoky.

Comment: A welcome bottling of this neglected malt, and an interesting example.

Score: 7.8

Taster

Nose: Stunning honey depth with a touch of mint and eucalyptus adding oaky firmness. Rare and glorious balance for is age.

Palate: A big honey-oak arrival that is waxy and chewy but filters out into more controlled spice.

Finish: A bitter-sweet honeyed saltiness, then thumping arrival of malt and oak in tandem.

Comment: This is big, bruising, uncompromising whisky of very high class.

Score: 8.5