Description

Distilled June 1965, bottled August 2015. Cask #10896. 153 bottles. 43.7%. Natural cask strength, natural colour, no chill-filtration. Refill hogshead, filled only a few years after the distillery started producing.

Colour: Fully golden with autumnal summer evening hints.

Nose: Delicate, old and restrained. There’s plenty of gentle grain sweetness there, but you can also get hints of smoke, maybe from the cask charring.Palate: The palate is lovely and oily. There’s a balanced sweetness, but also a gentle herbal nature amongst the grains that still just about show their head after such a long maturation.

Finish: Smoke puffs are there, there’s toffee, demerara sugars, and some oak tannins that just underline things, they don’t ruin it at all. Some cocoa notes come forward, and then it all dries off somewhat. Amazingly good.