Taster

Nose: Fruit cake mix with cherries, ginger, prune syrup, tangerine and treacle toffee. Coffee and demerara sugar.

Palate: Gingerbread, smoked venison, prunes in Armagnac. Nice, broad mouth-coating texture on the tongue.

Finish: Traces of burnt, pork crackling.

Comment: Cracking whisky led by an intense relationship with its sherry cask.

Score: 8.5

Taster

Nose: Deeply sherried. Like being plunged into a deep, dank, autumn wood. Liquorice and cold Darjeeling tea coupled with wet wool/leather. More sulphur with water. Funky and mature.

Palate: Rich and not as tannic as the nose suggests. Nutty, rich and mellow. Good depth.

Finish: Treacle toffee.

Comment: A big powerful bruiser.

Score: 7.8