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Colour: Real pale, bright straw.
Nose: Very full, sweet and appealing. There is much honey so intense and clear I have seldom experienced. Also there is caramel fudge, scottish tablets and softly perfumed notes like flower covered highland meadows in springtime. Not the smallest trace of smoke, spice, not to speak of peat or such. It is just plain clean honeycomb sweetness, very pleasant and not at all boring because of that very floral addition.
Taste: Again the first impression is perfect sweetness. Not soft and easy but sweet. And here on the palate the floral notes are getting more and more accented and mix beautifully with the mighty complex sweetness. But, like always in life and good whisky, this idyllic picture has a dark side: Little later coffee notes and few but clearly bitter herbal notes (unforesniffable in the nose) show up and lead toward the very round and rather long
Finish: Not unlike capuccino made with soy milk, sweetened with honey, for me very pleasant and fulfilling. To compare just visit your next organic coffee store.
Conc.: There are sure many honey accented drams in the highlands but here is a roundness making it a very expressive malt.
Tasting date: November/3nd/2009
2009