Taster

Nose: Still very fresh, but drier, with a touch more smokiness, and no obvious sherry.

Palate: Oilier. Very tangerine-like. Sweeter. Scenty. More complex.

Finish: Attractively appetising late echo of peat smoke.

Comment: Delicate but not bland. Real subtlety. Very mature, but not a hint of wood. A Highlander, but blindfold I would have placed it as a Speysider.

Score: 7.8

Taster

Nose: Stupendous aroma: a posy of lilacs and blue bells which is heady and rich.

Palate: Drier than the nose suggests with an early arrival of firm oak. Sweetens as the malt arrives.

Finish: Decent bitter-sweet balance which perhaps levels out on the former but always with a barley-sugar undercurrent.

Comment: Held its age well and another gem for the sweet-toothed. Excellent.

Score: 8.5