Cask No. 4.296

Cask No. 4.296

Life-affirming

Highland,Island

At 17 years of age, we combined selected casks from this distillery. We then returned that single malt into a variety of casks to develop further and this is one of those casks. Typical of the make, the nose took us from a heathery hillside picnic of cinnamon flapjacks, toasted marshmallows and lemon-flavoured jellybeans, to a dry dock with wooden boats, salt-encrusted sails and sacks of whelks. The palate was beautifully mouth-coating and punchy a fabulous finesse of treacly sweetness and smoke seaweed and grilled prawn shells, muscovado sugar and Manuka honey and hard wood shavings. The reduced nose found honey-glazed prawns sizzling over a driftwood beach bonfire, poached pears, perfumed cigarettes and a camomile lawn. On the palate cigar butts, turbinado sugar and smoked fish invigorating, uplifting and life-affirming.

Cask:Refill hogshead
Age: 20 years
Date distilled:September 2000
Alcohol: 56.2%
USA allocation: 120 bottles