Notes
Cask No. 37.75
Heady, aromatic and tongue-tickling
Speyside, Spey
Seventeen years in a refill barrel before finishing in Sauternes gave this a delightful nose – aromatic and heady – full of floral perfumes (sweet peas, freesias) and tropical fruits (Tooty Frooties, fruit pastilles, jam donut) with some varnished wood. The palate was lip-smacking and tongue-tickling – mainly sweet and fruity (pineapple cake, brown sugar on pink grapefruit, candied lemon, pick-n-mix) but with floral notes and playful, tingling woody spices at the end. The reduced nose found pavlova and sherbet lemons – comments included ‘warm and inviting’ and ‘my kind of whisky!’ The palate was sweetly succulent, with juicy melons and ‘dessert trolleys going by’.
Drinking tip: In a Jacuzzi, dreaming of tropical beaches. Colour: Winter sunsetCask: Second-fill Sauternes hogshead
Age: 18 years
Date distilled: August 1997
Alcohol: 55.1%
USA allocation: 108 bottles
