Distillery Profile

Taste rating: 3

Region: Highland - East.

Vanilla, creamy and a little fruity.

Released in April 2005 by the new owners. Anyone like to volunteer a tasting note?

This from customer Patterson:

I'm surprised you haven't reviewed this yet as it's a damn good whisky.

I'd have said it was like Glen Garioch with extra honey - but creamy is a good way of putting it. There's some treacle too.

Basically this is a good medium-heavy malt without island smoke. There's a bit of sherry but I think it's mainly wood flavour you're getting -definitely vanilla (real from the pod not the bottle of synthetic stuff). I get a certain amount of heather as well, but overall it's an autumn walk in aon oakwood with someone baking treacle tarts in the forester's cottage.

The alternative to this review is to actually taste the stuff! "

On the Malt Whisky Flavour Map we reckon this belongs in square: H5
Complex / Rich / Smoky

One of the best ever scoring whiskies in the Scottish Field Merchant's Challenge:

A lovely whisky, light, fruity, dynamic, with notes of tobacco, old teapots and honey. The taste has a little budget perfume within a round, soft well balanced dram that opens with water, delightfully complex with lots of interesting characters. Ace.

A 'Connoisseurs Choice' bottling from renowned bottlers Gordon & MacPhail.