- Nose
- Very dry and rich, with Campbeltown mustiness, old, dried fruits, bitter notes like apple seeds and sour cherry. Also shoe polish, marzipan, mothballs, pipe tobacco, dry oak, praline, grape stems, dates, earthy/dusty dunnage notes, charred vegetal side, maraschino cherries, ham with parsley sauce and leathery malt.
- Palate
- Rich, sweet, bitter, savoury, pumpernickel bread, menthol, licorice, burnt molasses, dark chocolate, Italian mustard fruits, charred oak & ash. Viscous mouthfeel, sweet entry with fruity notes of raisins, figs and cherries, broiled meat and sea salt. Also chocolate, cedar, matchsticks, cured meats, coal smoke, dried fruits, orange oil, roasted chilis, copper penny.
- Finish
- Afterburner with heat from alcohol, oak, prunes and their stones, dark cherries. Moderately long and salty with dark fruits and peat. Ashy medicinal smoke, ginger and chocolate oranges. Cigarette ash, a little sulfur, pencil shavings, redcurrant jam, leather & pine resin.
