A delicious Speyside bottling from, in comparison to others, a rather obscure distillery.
A 16-year-old release from Banffshire distillery Dailuaine (Gaelic for "the green vale") for the Flora & Fauna range.
Nose: Thick sugar notes, boiled sweets, cereals, barley sugars. Rich cocoa powder and bitter orange but that later alters ever so slightly to reveal a sharper citrus note of lemon pith which is complimented by slightly dusty macadamia nuts.
Palate: Smooth and rich, warming syrupy flavours and a smokiness give way to lighter notes of tinned peaches and sponge fingers.
Finish: Nutty, almonds, oily, smoke, oak.
Syrupy, almost grotesquely heavy at times; the lighter notes of previous bottlings have been lost under an avalanche of sugary, over-ripe tomatoes. One for those who want a massive dram
- Jim Murray
Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2016
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