Cask No. 85.42

Cask No. 85.42   

Put your feet up

Speyside, Lossie

On the nose neat it was dark, dense and sweet like a mocha cake with a balsamic strawberry whipped cream filling, chocolate icing and topped with crunchy toasted hazelnuts. A lot less sweet on the palate, still dark and sticky but now more like a prune and date cake or spicy oven-roasted plums seasoned with cloves and allspice and toasted almonds sprinkled on top. Water released bitter orange, liquorice, chocolate covered prunes and a touch of wax. A lot more herbal now to taste like a Jagertee; strong black tea, red wine, plum brandy, over-proof dark rum and plenty of spices. 

Drinking tip: When you get home after a long day out and about

Colour: Roe deer
Cask: Refill butt
Age: 16 years
Date distilled: September 1999
Alcohol: 57.9%
USA allocation: 90 bottles