Taster

Nose: Aged sherry (dry Oloroso) walnut, chicory, fig rolls, chocolate, wrinkly Cox's, tarragon. Water makes it smokier/meatier, leather, raisin, date and coal smoke.

Palate: Soft yet savoury: chocolate with a whiff of coal smoke, coffee cake.

Finish: Big soft and gentle. Liquorice and soot.

Comment: A big gentle well-balanced dram. Deep and old.

Score: 8.5

Taster

Nose: Malty. Treacle toffee. Appetising, juicy, sherryish, oak. Poire Williams.

Palate: Layers of malty, nutty, flavours.

Finish: Intense raisiny sweetness, then drying on the tongue, with a suggestion of char. A hint of cough sweets.

Comment: Lovely chestnut colour. Soothing. After dinner and in front of a log fire. A touch woody, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Score: 8.3