Tasting Notes

• Tasting Notes by Mark Gillespie, World Whiskies Awards 2012

  Dried fruits, tobacco, leather, honey. The palate is dry and spicy with cinnamon, honey leather, and liquorice notes. Spicy and lingering.

• Tasting Notes by Tim Forbes, World Whiskies Awards 2012

  Dry smoke and syrup, some soot. Bonfire palate with lovely sweet edges, leather and oak. Some pepper, dried kelp, wet earth and sea spray.

• Tasting Notes by Joel Harrison, World Whiskies Awards 2012

  Freshly brewed oolong tea, warehouse floor, truffles on the nose. Palate gives balanced blood orange, meaty BBQ steak and wood spice.

• Tasting Notes by Charlie MacLean, World Whiskies Awards 2012

  A complex array of scents - fruits, turpentine and polish. Slightly minty with water. Sweet, rounded and pleasant.

• Distributor's Tasting Notes

  A tropical nose with a touch of cherries and baked apples and a little toffee and smoke as it broadens.  Starts sweetly on the palate but soon the spice and oak kick in with heavier emphasis and the balance is maintained by the roundness and the touches of vanilla and mocha on the finish.

• Tasting Notes by Dave Broom

  Nose: Clean, with layered tropical fruit. Eucalyptus, red fruit, vanilla. Oak. Good weight and breadth.
  
  Palate: Oily, fruity and juicy. Almost Irish. Firm with obvious oaken structure but sufficient sweetness (cocoa, liquorice, vanilla) to carry.
  
  Finish: Lightly gripping.
  
  Comment: Images of a weather-beaten oak. Mature, but sweet-hearted.

  [These notes are reproduced from Whisky Magazine Issue 40]