Nose: Exotic fruit, peach, pear esters, suggestion of pineapple. Perfumed, floral, almost varnishy. Develops vanilla and dusty cedarwood.
Palate: Burst of fruit, esp pineapple. The peat is sweet and subtle, melding perfectly with the fruit. Late oak arrival, quite sappy oak for a malt so old. Remarkably fresh.
Finish: Warming and sweet, with the peat just winning. Still fruity, but becoming more appley. Lovely toasted cereal notes cropping up in little mini-surges.
Comment: Surprising in many ways. Delicious and seriously more-ish.
TF 18/07/07