Taster

Nose: Soft. Hay, with a hint of oily chocolate and vanilla. Warm.

Palate: Smooth. Chocolate, vanilla, nuts. Very lively and appetising.

Finish: Late salt and pepper, with a hint of rooty peat.

Comment: Scapa can seem a delicate whisky, but it is full of flavours, and deserves its growing following.

Score: 8

Taster

Nose: An essay in elegance with a delicate honey note attached to the malt and heather. The smokelessness and resulting lack of weight easily distinguishes it from a Highland Park, despite the honey-heather.

Palate: Immediately malty and rich with a delicious spicy tingling of old oak. The honey holds the middle and interplays with the drier oak notes and juicier malt. Wonderfully complex.

Finish: Cocoa-rich notes and biscuity maltiness makes for a quite weighty finale, and some curious smoke even wafts in from somewhere.

Comment:

Score: 9