Cask No. 112.66

Dark and flaming

Highland, Southern

The nose was deep, dark and mysterious Demerara, treacle scones, rum and raisin, melted roofing tar, cough syrup, Euthymol toothpaste and polished wood. The palate didnt just warm our cockles it set them aflame Madeira cake, black pepper, Fernet Branca, dark chocolate and marmalade cake, leather, liquorice root and clove-infused Muscovado. The reduced nose had medjool dates, malt loaf, molasses and manuka, Jamaica ginger cake and espresso dregs with brown sugar. The palate syrup of figs, pipe tobacco, crme de cassis, treacle, dark cherries and venison cooked in port. After 11 years in ex-bourbon wood, we transferred this into a new oak, heavy char hogshead.

Cask: New oakhogshead, heavy char #4
Age: 13 years
Date distilled:December 2006
Alcohol: 64.4%
USA allocation: 90 bottles