Cask No. 7.133

Cask No. 7.133

A bag of boiled sweets

Speyside, Lossie    

Very prickly to start, then develops into zingy boiled sweets – acid drops, lemon sherbets; fresh overall, but with an oaky base, especially apparent on the tongue. Water introduces canvas and plastic (new trainers), warm leatherette (the interior of a new Jaguar), the sweet freshness now sour green apples and travel sweets dusted with icing sugar. The taste is sweet, then immediately sour; spritely, with mulled wine spices and a warming finish. This would drink well straight from the freezer in a chilled martini glass.

Drinking tip: A bracing aperitif

Colour: Moonlight
Cask: First-fill barrel
Age: 12 years
Date distilled: September 2003
Alcohol: 57.9%
USA allocation: 90 bottles