Cask No. 4.309

A green and refreshing initial nose that included samphire frying in salty butter, wet fabrics, citrus washing powders, bath and mineral salts, beach pebbles and nourishing heather ales. A more gentle expression of this famous Orcadian make, but no less evocative of its origins. Water brought limestone, wax jackets, fresh breads and aromatic herbs. The palate was crisp with heather smoke, lime juice, smoke olive oil and delicate threads of peat smoke. Water added a more medicinal aspect along with more beers, heather, sea greens, coastal herbs and gentle tarry and saline notes. At 7 years of age we combined selected casks from this distillery. We then returned that single malt into a variety of different casks to develop further - this is one of those casks. Originally from bourbon hogsheads, married in this 1st fill barrel.