Taster

Nose: Charming, juicy, gentle and ripe. Succulent fruit (cooked apple, poached pear) balanced oak (vanilla). Water brings out dry bracken, thrift and sea spray.

Palate: Very soft malt. A sweet, succulent, subtly balanced malt that rolls around the mouth.

Finish: Hint of salt, butter and light smoke drifting by.

Comment: Elegant. You'd never guess it's 20 Years Old. Great balance between salt and soft fruit.

Score: 9

Taster

Nose: The fresh flowers by the shore are now being blown by sea air gusting off Loch Indaal.

Palate: More cereal grain oiliness. More fruit. More salt. More of everything.

Finish: Again, salt and iron. Warming and appetising.

Comment: Rounded, balanced and complex. Too expensive to pour on my porridge before an early morning walk on the Big Strand? I'll economise. I'll skip the porridge.

Score: 8.3