Taster

Nose: Old-fashioned sticking plasters, herrings in a barrel.

Palate: Lively, brine and limes, backed by delicate peat-reek.

Finish: Lengthy and increasingly salty, with cereal 'new make' notes lingering.

Comment: A drinkable, if relatively undemanding whisky. Perhaps a good introduction to Islay.

Score: 8.3

Taster

Nose: Hugely smoky. Jalapeno peppers, kippers, soot. Becomes fragrant and increasingly medicinal.

Palate: Balancing biscuity/salted crackers crispness. Burning dry leaves, smoked fish. Ointment (Savlon) in taste and texture.

Finish: Quite perfumed, fragrant smoke. Scallop.

Comment: Reekie certainly, but auld? Good fun.

Score: 7.8