Cask No. 24.145

Cask No. 24.145

Seductive sweetness

Speyside, Spey

The nose gave us a cornucopia of fruits stewed apples, sultanas, cantaloupe and orange. Mellifluous sweetness honey, marzipan, treacle tart and deeper aromas of cinnamon, star anise and vanilla. The palate offered a balanced duality of full-on seductive sweetness; spun sugar, butterscotch, marrons glacs, Nutella, baked bananas and more platonic teasing hints of wood spice, mahogany, aftershave and tobacco definitely complex. The reduced nose discovered beeswax furniture polish, pralines, foamy shrimps and raspberry sauce on ice-cream. The palate became somehow even more complex and more interesting brown sugar, baklava and fruit syrup; then sweet oak, old leather and warming spices.

Cask: First-fillbarrel
Age: 18 years
Date distilled:March 2002
Alcohol: 57.8%
USA allocation: 60 bottles