- Nose
- Delicious dark chocolate, sun-dried fruits, tell-tale wisp of Islay smoke, red apple, pear, raisins, pencil shavings, fresh grass cuttings, lemon, brine, sugar sweet, coffee beans, caramelized nuts, subtle coastal notes, cherries, buttered caramel, light sweet smoke, perfumed peat, almonds, prunes, toffee, cigar ash, struck matches, fruit & nut chocolate, autumn spices, sandalwood, incense, tar.
- Palate
- Cedar wood, rich treacle toffee, dry peat, hot spice, red apple, toffee, delicate treacle sweetness, sweet and sour oak, caramel chews, sweet rich salted caramel, dark chocolate, cocoa notes, juicy rich fruit cake, sweet and dry, lemon, wood, sherry wood, fruity, berries, forest fruits, leathery notes, nuts, treacle, floral hint, subtle smokiness, barley, butterscotch, dried fruit (plums, sultanas, apples), grapefruit juice, herbs, spices (mint, pepper, clove, cinnamon), tobacco, oily, viscous, smoky peat, wood spice, creamy, viscous, raisins, dried apricot, peppery bitterness, ash.
- Finish
- Robust, complex, hint of sherry tannin, long and spicy, lingering sherry, dry oak tannins, medium, peppery washes of singed and salty fruit, drying out, cocoa, short, spice, peat, long, tar, walnuts, middle-long, quite dry, basically sweet, light bitterness, citric, sour, salty notes, sweet barley, light peat, smoke, iodine, sulphur, espresso, blackberries, oak, ginger, licorice, mint, lemon, grapefruit, mixed nuts, dark chocolate, slightly sour apples, hint of raw meat, medium-short smoky finish, sweet fruit notes, butterscotch, peach, gentle tannins, continued smoke.
