Taster

Nose: Piri piri hot chicken, sweet honey and roasted parsnip soup and cured apricots.\n

Palate: Hot corn on the cob smothered in butter, pancakes with syrup and sugar with chunks of pineapple.\n

Finish: More pineapple, with a hint of suede.\n

Comment: Sweet, this shows that good whisky making is alive and well in Oz, even if there are better aged examples.

Score: 8.6

Taster

Nose: Exceedingly herbal nose. A little feinty and manurey but there’s also some estery fruit and honey to offset. Fresh and invigorating with green banana, oily apricot, mandarin and a dusting of caster sugar.

Palate: Oilier than the nose with barley, apricot, banana, mandarin with plenty of herbal notes. Honeyed with an almost triple distilled high-toned character. A little caster sugar sweetens. \n

Finish: A little short and tart with lingering herbal notes and barley. \n

Comment: An entertaining little number resembling young, American oak aged Auchentoshan.

Score: 7.9