Notes
Cask No. 71.42
Sinbad preparing for a journey
Speyside, Lossie
The invigorating nose gave us cinder toffee, crème brûlée, burnt sugar, maple syrup, smoky bacon crisps, pork crackling and patchouli; also something between an old-fashioned boat-builder’s yard and an Eastern rug shop – we thought of Sinbad preparing for a journey. Adding water brought Dairy Milk chocolate in a steamroller cab and an Asian dish of prunes and roast pork. The palate was big, tasty and dark – treacle cake, pancakes and bacon with maple syrup, caramel pop-corn, vanilla ice-cream, chilli chocolate, caramelized apples with pork; beef jerky and leather. In reduction – sweeter and more pleasant –tarte tatin, bacon, custard and cigars.
Drinking tip: Not an all night drinking dram – but could be very useful after chopping logs in the snow.
Colour: Treacly tan shoe polishCask: Refill butt
Age: 17 years
Date distilled: March 1998
Alcohol: 57.5%
USA allocation: 150 bottles
