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Colour: Golden, brite straw, with green glimmers.
Nose: Very gentle, yet expressive and very round: Dried fruits, figs and dates combined with wet hay (a very surprising and delicate note of farmyard or cowbarn) backed by a clearly definded whiff of smoke (air dried bacon).
Taste: Very warm, full and malty and again this very pleasureful smoke stands in the back. Not as complex as the nose (pity, the farmyards missing) but lets try a good shot of water: Here now the soft malty notes dominate: milk chocolate, mints, marzipan, fresh buttered toast and here again this farmyard notes back. With more water added theres again more complexity.
Finish: Good and long, the oakwood sending soft waves of smoke and bitter herbs again and again.
Conc.: A very fine highlander s! tands tall. Beautifully crafted and balanced, goes perfectly with dark chocolate or tobacco.
Date: Feb/06/2008
Price in Germany: ca 55,00 Euro

2009