Scotch Malt Whisky Society 115.11

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FRESH AND FLIRTATIOUS

This 8 year old Speysider was matured in a refill barrel and comes in at 59.3%.

Flavour profile:  Juicy, oak & vanilla.

Outturn:  227 bottles.

Panel's tasting note:  "The nose is essentially fresh and flirtatious – lemon sherbet and lemon puff biscuits, grass and vanilla; deeper notes of fruit loaf and Eccles cakes lurk behind, but are eventually superseded by orange blossom, new oak and pine forests. The palate is a sweet, fruity, citrus zingy thing – lemon and lime sorbet, passion fruit, orange jelly, fruit Mentos and blackcurrant lozenges; though the aftertaste picks up a bit of leather, tobacco, cumin and coriander heat.

The reduced nose – vanilla sarsaparilla, apple, pear and ripe blackcurrant. The palate – still fruity (apple pie, blackcurrant jam, gooseberry), but with cheeky pickled ginger and wasabi spiciness later."

750 ml