Taster

Nose: Big bold butter and smoke. Like toasted bread with a hint of charcoal and honey. Neither too rich nor too delicate. Tightrope walks between the sweet \nand savoury. \n

Palate: Sweeter than expected but with a rounded, mature caramel and brown sugar note and crisp smoke. As if a baker has dropped a batch of cookie dough in some ashy BBQ embers.\n

Finish: Lovely, lingering smoke that sits perfectly down the middle of the palate beside sweeter, baked crumble notes. \n

Comment: Well balanced, attractive and drinkable.

Score: 7.7

Taster

Nose: Dense barley and oily, phenolic peat with a touch of brine. In fact it becomes exceedingly oily. Water brings out a light woody note.

Palate: Unsurprisingly oily and viscous with lightly phenolic peat, bog myrtle and lubricious vanilla notes. Add in the alcohol and the palate is not that forthcoming. Water makes it a tad vague but a little sweeter.

Finish: Neat, it is short and hot with lingering oily peat. Diluted, it is longer and sweeter with a pleasant barley finish.\n

Comment: A little too oily for its own good one thinks.

Score: 7