Diet Viking

We found some typical and delightful initial notes in this one, including juniper wood, pineapple syrup, lemon barley water and young calvados, plus citrus-scented bath salts and dried herbs, ash-dipped gooseberries and sweetened lime juice. Water brought some firmer notes of clay, sunflower oil, hessians and milk stout beer. Coastal fresh air kept everything lively. The palate was initially full of smoked teas, lavender flowers, heather ales, brown miso and salted butter. A firm, oily texture with a hint of herbal cough syrup. Reduction brought a tiny kiss of peat smoke, lightly smoked olive oil, sardines, parsley, soot and ointments. A lighter take on this Orkney classic but still hugely charismatic. At six years of age, we combined selected casks from the same distillery. We then returned the single malt into a variety of different casks to develop further. This is one of those casks.