Taster

Nose: Sweet and perfumed, plums followed by smoke and cigar boxes.

Palate: Short sweetness, stewed prunes, then dry note of damped-down bonfire.

Finish: Plums and a faint whiff of peat smoke.

Comment: Lots happening here. A complex and highly unusual expression of Port Ellen.

Score: 8.5

Taster

Nose: Concentrated. Fruit compote, baked fruits, tinned raspberry, cooked plum but with phenolics acting as a counterpoint: tobacco leaf, coal.

Palate: A sweet, winey start then it dries allowing the peat to emerge before relaxing and letting raspberry fruitiness to return. Layered, complex.

Finish: Mellow, winey, a hint of fragrant smoke.

Comment: Audacious but it works. Brilliantly.

Score: 9