Cask No. 26.106

Cask No. 26.106                           

‘Say it with flowers’

Highland, Northern

The first impression is of sweet pastry – shortbread – with vanilla notes, increasingly supported by fruit cake or dried fruits steeped in tea. In time it lightens: fresh figs, melon, fresh grass, rosemary. At natural strength, the taste is heavier: herbal tea and jasmine tea, musty/waxy, nutty (macaroons, hazelnuts and almonds), flower honey. The last increases with a dash of water, becoming more waxy/oily – sunflower oil, crème Anglais, light nuts. Now the texture is soft, the taste sweet with honeycomb, then slightly bitter (edible flowers like nasturtiums) in the finish. Complex and ever-changing.

Drinking tip: For a special tea party

Colour: Imperial ivory
Cask: Refill butt
Age: 29 years
Date distilled: November 1984
Alcohol: 58.0%
USA allocation: 120 bottles