Colour: amber. Nose: No sweet sherry here and no Christmas cake, we’re rather on old walnuts, vin jaune, manzanilla (and big time!), old leather jacket and then various precious woods and the polishes that come with them. Oh, and there IS a little wood smoke as well. After twenty minutes: the dried fruits come out, together with some mocha and motor oil. Mouth: bang, everything comes at the same time, which is quite unusual with these old whiskies. Black raisins, coffee, old cognac (rancio), tobacco, a little tar, blackcurrant liqueur and the trademark Seville oranges. Some heather honey as well but then it just wouldn’t change.Finish: not extremely long and all in keeping with the arrival, so it just never changes. Or when linearity is stunning.
