Step into the pastry shop's sweet whirl. This whisky was born from the memory of entering a pastry shop for the very first time. It's about that first moment of finding your senses deliciously overwhelmed, breathing in the sweet scents and wishing you co...
In flavour, the expression offers sumptuous notes of dark fruits, rich chocolate and manuka honey with an enveloping, memorable finish worthy of this monumental malt's history. This luxuriously sherried Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky is bottled at 46%...
The palate is sharp and again quite fruity, though more traditional notes of vanilla custard, toffee, come into focus, helping to temper that enduring rush of citrus. As this fades, what’s left behind evokes almond nougat, brighter notes of lemon, and a mix of fresh green herbs — less rosemary but more of a mélange from the garden. Tempering with water helps bring this all into clearer focus (and this whisky can handle plenty of it), with a finish that evokes sandalwood, coconut, and lingering hints of those old bourbon barrels.
I found its charms significant enough to return to the well more than once.
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John Milroy was one of the first retailers to pioneer Single Malt Whiskies in London over 40 years ago. The Scottish connoisseur's devotion to promoting Malt Whiskies and his ability to identify special casks has created an international following for The...