- Nose
- A sweet musty mashup of rich port wine - prunes, rancio, cherry cola, and old dusty wood. Strawberry shortbread, red berries dusted with icing sugar, bramble jelly, earthier fruit licorice notes, sweet cured ham, raspberry coulis and pink vanilla wafers. Ripe berries, raspberry jam, honey, vanilla, orange zest and soft floral notes.
- Palate
- Sweet with a dark demerara sugar effusive with floral vanilla followed by a peppery mid-palate expansion bursting with sherry raisin, and black cherry over a big cereal malt foundation. Red cherry and fruity liquorice mingle with cranberry and red jelly, framed by fragrant herbs and spicy wood. Malty with earthy and leathery notes, like jam on brown bread, punctuated by crunchy tannins that lend savory grip and a lingering, warming finish. Red cherries, plums, creamy toffee, sweet malt, gentle Port wine richness and warming baking spices.
- Finish
- Long and dominated by a peculiar sweet-sour woody finish that is uniquely Glenmorangie, with a vermouth quality - but dryer and more elegant. Red berry jam lingers with malty bread and strawberry shortbread, spiced by aromatic wood. It dries into herbal, earthy tannins with a savory whisper of honey-glazed Christmas ham. Long, silky and elegant with lingering red fruits, vanilla, toasted oak and subtle spice.
