Cooper's Choice Skara Brae 2002 54.5%

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The Secret Orkney is a euphemism for Highland Park... sure, there is another distillery in the Orkneys, but it almost certainly didn't produce any of the mystery Orkney single malt flooding the market these days! Distilled in 2002, and matured in an ex-Bourbon cask, No. 77, for 16 years. Exclusive to KWM, just 30 bottles available. 54.5%.

Andrew's Tasting Note

Nose: honeyed and malty with clean smoke; heather in full bloom, candied cherries and bright juicy orange; a touch of tarry peat oils and scallops poached in lemon and butter.

Palate: starts slow but builds rapidly in to a lush, savoury and elegantly smoky malt; more butter poached scallops with lemon; juicy orange, candied cherries, canteloup and bags of honey; the smoke is clean and the peat only a light delicate touch; thick, oily and coating with big chewy malt.

Finish: honeyed, creamy and coating with more citrus, clean smoke and honey… have I mentioned honey yet?!

Comment: don’t let the pale colour deceive you… this is a sweet, thick and very honeyed Highland Park; juicy, malty and oh so honeyed, with clean smoke and faint, delicate Orkney peat; yum.

 

700 ml