Tasting Panel Notes

The neat nose immediately brought to mind seashore barbecues, limeade in soda water, charred peaches, heather honey in porridge with sea salt, beef jerky and hot beach sand in the sunshine. Water revealed a mentholic and chalky edge, with eucalyptus oils, menthol and camphor balm, manuka honey, liquorice, dried mango and gorse. The palate opened with big notes of sweet, charred watermelon, mango pulp, elderflower liqueur, dried herbs, wildflowers and hints of bandage and coal smoke. Reduction brought orange peels, root beer, guava, salted honey and brittle trace notes of Orcadian peat smoke. At seven years of age, we combined selected casks from the same distillery. We then returned the single malt into a variety of different casks to develop further. This is one of those casks.