Tasting note

Rich and succulent, this super-luxe old Speyside spirit starts out friendly, with burnt honey, dried fruit and cashew flavours, before delivering a backslap of spice and seductive nuance of damp earth. Score - 93. (Beppi Crosariol, The Globe and Mail, Nov. 25, 2011)

NOSE A perfume of fruity and ripe raisin notes, backed by a nutty dryness.

Premium Spirit Release product. Available to purchase starting November 2. “Chocolate marzipan with a soft sugar-plum centre; deft, clean and delicate; hard to imagine a delivery more perfectly weighted: a rich tapestry of fruit and nut plus malt melts on the palate with a welter of drier, pithy, grape skin balancing the vanillas and barley oils.” 94.5 points – Whisky Bible 2013