Tasting Notes

• Tasting notes by Billy Abbott (The Whisky Exchange)

  Nose: Sweet cream, honeysuckle and spring meadow flowers lead. Apple blossom and creamy vanilla custard follow, with sliced apple and pear, and rich citrus peel notes: orange and lemon. Candied flower petals – violet and rose – develop, wafting delicately over a field of buttery malt.

  Palate: The sweet cream from the nose returns, with spicy bodyguards: cinnamon and nutmeg to one side, white and black pepper on the other. Stewed apples roll in, with liquorice and anise touches. Sweet shop notes hide at the bottom: candy necklaces, apple chews and creamy milk chocolate. Floral notes develop, with delicate petals and sweet syrup tinged with a hint of leafy mint. Water softens the spice, but leaves the intensity of flavour. Buttery notes are amplified, and fruit and cream notes develop: strawberry- and orange-creme-filled chocolates.

  Finish: A burst of buttermint fades to leave sweet floral touches and gentle green leaf notes.