Tasting Notes
The neat nose expressed mineral oils, strop leather and fresh linens in abundance. After that we also noted heather flowers, shilling ales and brown bread spread with honey. Reduction evolved things towards sunflower oils and toasted pumpkin seeds, with wee hints of hessian cloth and dried herbs. The palate opened with juicy fruit chewing gum, pineapple syrup and mango purée – surprisingly fruity we all thought. It also displayed a lovely peppery and menthol quality as well. With water it remained nicely fruity and pulpy in texture, but also became waxier, beerier and more emphatically bready. A superb and surprising dram! This was matured in a bourbon hogshead for four years before being transferred to a refill heavy toast medium char hogshead.