Nose

Hot worts: barley, barley, barley. Coal dust and peat smoke. Roasting pork and baking apples. Cinnamon icing and rising sourdough. Milk chocolate, honey and prawn crackers, with a base of white chocolate (vanilla and cocoa butter).

Palate

Full and intense. Pear cordial, smoked and baked apple, liquorice, green pepper, toffee and barley bread. Spearmint and menthol.

Finish

Medium, bittersweet at first, then the smoked barley returns.

Comment

As pure an expression of an Islay distillery as I’ve ever tasted.