Taster

Nose: Warm crumpets with marmalade, Weetabix and full fat milk, sweet and grainy. A little saline, hot river stones and saltine crackers. Exotic spices, garam masala and cumin, then dark cherry and chocolate. Fresh pastries and warm bread crusts.

Palate: Huge sweetness, then the cherry rolls in. Bakery Belgian buns, icing sugar and almond croissants. Menthol too, and sherbet candy.

Finish: Just keeps giving waves of tobacco smoke and roast almonds.

Comment: Breath-taking. A benchmark for wheat whiskeys.

Score: 9.6

Taster

Nose: A huge box made of pine needles and toffee popcorn, fizzy cherry bottles and cantaloupe melon. Then freshly cut wood aroma that lingers in your dad’s shed.

Palate: A sour note, washed down with melon and nectarine smoothies and barbequed kiwis. Then some shoe polish, oak roasted ham and torched heather sprigs.

Finish: A sensationally sweet, buttery texture with charred fruits and musky florals.

Comment: Continental breakfasts served up in the woodshed.

Score: 8.5