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Cask No. 46.31

Sniffing a bees knees

Speyside, Lossie

The nose was sweetly seductive toffee, caramel, Flumps, Tunnocks Snowballs and carrot cake, but far from one-dimensional it also had hessian, coconut, macadamias and insinuations of citrus. The palate offered fantastic, mouth-watering sweet acidity, like Moffat toffees; plus exotic fruits, flowers and strawberry jam tarts and the finish teasingly dry with woody tannins, coconut and clove. Floral notes increased on the reduced nose parma violets, lavender (someone imagined sniffing a bees knees) not to forget pineapple, sherbet and granola. The palate now danced on our tongues lively as lollipops and cream soda, with lots of interesting back-flavours (cardamom, anise, angostura) engaging.

Drinking tip: Sweetly seductive, tongue-dancing and engaging must be a dram for a hot date!

Colour: Under-water beach sand
Cask: Refill hogshead
Age: 22 years
Date distilled: September 1992
Alcohol: 54.2%
USA allocation: 84 bottles