Cask No. 30.91

Cask No. 30.91

Deliciously dark and sweet

Speyside, Spey

The nose delighted us with honey flapjacks, barley sugars, Demerara and treacle tart pumpkin pie and blackberry bushes gave it an almost autumnal air. The palate was deliciously dark and sweet scorched meringues, orange liqueur, black bun, treacle on a welly boot and a tannic twist of oak in the tail. The reduced nose found burnt wood and leaves, singed fruit cake, stroop waffles and old tennis racket handles. The reduced palate achieved a balance between treacle toffee and muscovado sweetness and the mighty oak, while some elusive suggestions of red wine and stock reduction added a savoury complexity.

Drinking tip: After dinner or at least in an armchair by a log fire first cold nights of autumn.

Colour: Ginger gold
Cask: Refill gorda
Age: 18 years
Date distilled: April 1997
Alcohol: 58.7%
USA allocation: 120 bottles