Taster

Nose: Mum’s homemade rum and raisin cheesecake, cream cheese, juicy raisins, resinous wood, and allspice.

Palate: ight and gentle sandalwood, lemon zest, slightly mossy green notes, pistachio dark chocolate bar, before the heat sneaks up and dries everything out.

Finish: Drying cork heat turns into fresh green leaves.

Comment: Loved the creamy fruit notes on the nose and although that didn’t develop as I expected, it still had enough about it to intrigue. Tannins are a little heavy on the finish.

Score: 7.6

Taster

Nose: Honeycomb ice cream and caramel sauce, with stewed apples and pears. Granola and candied pecan. Delicate almond biscuit. Milk cookies.

Palate: Medium-heavy bodied. Somewhat oily. Orange oils and quince jelly, blossom honey and apple crumble with cream. A dash of amaretto, then a swig of vanilla syrup.

Finish: Medium length. Fades on the sweet honey note.

Comment: A pleasing and relatively complex blended malt worthy of attention, though it’s the mouthfeel that does it for me.

Score: 8