Cask No. 35.149

Cask No. 35.149

Expect the unexpected

Speyside, Lossie

This was something out of the ordinary, the nose neat started off with soft ginger bread, chocolate limes, Orris root essential oil but then a deeper aroma of pot roasted pheasant flavoured with orange and served with chestnut puree appeared. The taste neat was intense, sweet and malty like a coffee and walnut sponge cake or molasses banana-oat bread. Water added to the complexity; carrot cake with a brown sugar cream frosting, sticky toffee pudding and a glass of Oloroso Dulce. On the palate words cannot do it justice, elegant, well balanced but also powerful like a vintage crusted Port wine.

Drinking tip: The best relationships usually begin unexpectedly

Colour: Reddish-brown henna
Cask: First-fill Moscatel hogshead
Age: 10 years
Date distilled: June 2005
Alcohol: 61.4%
USA allocation: 90 bottles