Taster

Nose: Both jammy and meaty, think of venison and redcurrant jelly. Water turned it a bit grubby, but this note settled to become like an earthy, forest floor. Some sweet, wine-like fruitness is there too.

Palate: Sweet and jammy, then drying.

Finish: Tannic, with a dry and husky, aftertaste like you get when you chew peated barley.

Comment: Choose the 1974 over this one, although if you are a fan of sherry cask led malt this may be your thing.

Score: 7.3

Taster

Nose: Plenty of stone fruit and vanilla. A Viognier like fleshy peachiness as well as a certain oiliness, but it's peaches from a parallel universe. Fruit, Jim, but not quite as we know it. Mature, with a flor-like nuttiness. Yeasty. It's all intriguingly odd.

Palate: Great age on show here, manages to balance the oak with a toffee-ed depth.

Finish: Nut shell.

Comment: Just lacks a little length. Not as pure as the 74, but I like its weirdness.

Score: 7.8