Taster

Nose: All sweetness with cornflakes and honey, white chocolate pennies, white toast and strawberry jam. Fresh cut and boiled corn cobs. Wheat crackers then barley sugar water, peach flavoured.

Palate: Huge sweetness that lasts and clings, orange oil, lime zest punches, then spices rise in the form of chilli oil. Cherry compote and fresh meringue.

Finish: Spicy, then drying with that chilli seed heat.

Comment: Oh grain, with this excellence you should be on everyone’s agenda.

Score: 9.1

Taster

Nose: Definitely has that distinctive hot acetate note straight off the nose. Cooked red apples in red wine vinegar, baked salmon and candied lemon peel begin to appear though.

Palate: Surprisingly creamy – buttered scones and banana milkshakes. Sweet fruits with Irn Bru and peaches in syrup followed by gingerbread, cloves and fennel seeds.

Finish: This grain surprises you with every sip as new flavours just keep creeping up on you.

Comment: If the Pink Panther theme tune was a whisky….

Score: 8.9