Cask No. 122.47

Cask No. 122.47      

Pirates going crazy on the beach

Highland, Southern

Lots to discover on the nose, but everything was suffused with heather and lavender smoke – preserved lemons, tonka beans, gooseberries, marker pens and dousing a fire with a can of Sprite. The palate was full of fruity character – apple, lemon sherbet, peaches, pear drops, dried apricot – tangy and tasteful, but again all rumbled up in a madness of smoke. On the reduced nose we imagined a pack of pirates swigging rum and toasting marshmallows over a beach bonfire. The palate now – exotic, ash-smeared fruits, blow-torched mango, pineapple concentrate, chocolate limes, passion fruit, melon and flaming lemon thyme – ‘Hell Yeah!’

Cask: Second-fill barrel
Age: 8 years
Date distilled: May 2013
Alcohol: 61.1%
USA allocation: 72 bottles