Nose: Exotic fruits, such as Minute Maid Tropical, pineapple, mango, apricot, oatmeal, icing sugar, some mint, even mint tea to cool the snorkel, honey, the oak is present but not as dominant as you would imagine it would be for 44 years of aging. A fruit compote in conjunction with a sweetish sour note - you do not really know where ... If my snoring bulldog did not destroy my head cinema, I could easily imagine I'm in the jungle, surrounded by fragrant ripe fruit - very beautiful!
Palate: On the palate, the onset on the tongue is only stronger than expected. Very spicy, warm, oak bitterness that does not bother, but underpinned. The malt settles in the happy cheeks, the tongue snaps, the senses rage. In the mouth, it seems much more present, or should I say more powerful than in the nose. But this power has nothing to do with immaturity or burning; no, there is concentrated oak aroma, spice, cinnamon, vanilla and of course yellow fruits, pineapple, mango, as well as a pinch of pepper, which ..
leaving then remain in a residual bitterness in the throat and palate. When breathing through the nose, the less minute maid remains, but a very pleasant oak load remains. Fresh sawn light wood, and at the very end again a kind of sugar, but just more icing sugar. Beautifully warming decay, until the glass is visited again by my demonic hand, with only one goal, my throat!
Conclusion: A delicious malt that blends seamlessly into the Speysider 73/75 series and goes without problems without water. I think you should not dilute such a malt. I prefer to enjoy in small slips, as I rob this witness of the time of his powers and magic.