Cask No. 122.23

Cask No. 122.23      

‘Highly a-musing’

Highland, Southern

The first nose had the sweet smokiness of honey-cured bacon and curried smoked salmon cubes, followed by liquorice and the light medicinal smell of muscle rub. On the palate a ferocious attack of sweet perfumed smoke but, taking into account the age, all fairly well balanced and quite satisfying in a mysterious way. With water, like a salt and oil body scrub enriched with Dead Sea minerals, sweet almond oil and a snuffed out perfumed candle. To taste, a very sweet start before charcoal grilled spiced pork herb sausages arrived and a lengthy slightly bitter finish.

Cask: Second-fill hogshead
Age: 7 years
Date distilled: February 2011
Alcohol: 57.7%
USA allocation: 72 bottles