[July, 2018]  I am brave today and re-taste this rather strange dram.  The nose is not as impressive anymore as it was immediately after opening the bottle and I would score it okay-ish today (86 points, not more).  Most probably it fell victim to oxidation effects in an almost empty bottle.  The initial moutfeel (not taste!) still is pretty good as all of the mouth gets immediately coated with a warming and charming feeling without any distracting moments (I go for 89 points this time).  The taste complex but lavender-scented and not a pleasure to drink at all - 75 points again (but not as disgusting as many extremely soapy drams).  The finish is long and a little better than the taste but still way too much perfumed (77 points).  All in all I score a total 80 points today (for the nose and mouthfeel), I recommend not to swallow this stuff!  

[July, 2017]  This for sure is not from the Speyside distillery in Kingussie as this started its production in 1990 first.  It was build as a farm distillery by George Christie from 1962 to 1987.  And this bottle was sold in Italy with a size of 75cl (from 1991 on all high spirits bottles in the EU were standardised to a volume of 70cl only) - so it was bottled during the eighties or even seventies...

It is a typical vatted malt (or blended malt nowadays) of unknown distilleries from the Speyside region.  Its colour is amontillad and the texture shows a few slow legs and very late fat tears that stick to the top of the glass.  This oiliness promises good stuff...  The nose is all about these great old bottle flavours (lacquer paint, aceton and the like) and offers a very fruity and honey-sweet profile with lots of different aromas to discover.  I really adore such old-stylish noses (but if you are used to modern designed whiskies this might be strange and unimpressive as it lacks the "oompf" and built-in spikes of today's streamlined stuff).  When it arrives in the mouth it immediately coats all of it for a very long time (just like the texture with its fat oiliness promised) - tell me one modern NAS whisky that does the same!  The taste is quite perfumed (so I guess it was distilled in the late sixties or early seventies when a lot of distilleries produced perfumed whisky profiles - was it due to the yeasts they used?).  But all is integrated in a rich honey-barley-wooden structure that is well balanced (only the lavender-spike disturbs the harmony).  The finish is very long and adorable sweet with some nice chocolatey flavours, the lavender now is not that dominant anymore.  And the whisky sticks the same way to your throat as did the first sip to the whole of the mouth.   Some water reduces the lavender-spike both in the taste and the finish, I like it that way better.  Nevertheless the best way to enjoy it is to use the spittoon after nosing and mouthfeel (unless you like perfumed whiskies)...This is an absolutely Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde dram, if there were not this odd lavender-spike in the taste and finish this would be a clear 90 points score (to me).  But I can fully understand when others rate this overall low as it is so different and strange to the nose and palate of people that know modern style whiskies only (simply leave all the old stuff for me at least for nosing it and I will leave the NAS editions for you - no, just joking)...

A weeks oxidation later there is the FWP now, no, it is actually worse, at the second tasting. Only very slightly on the nose but the so very bad in the mouth that I don't want to swallow and have to spit it out and clean my mouth. Down from 85 to ... 72 with goodwill.__________________________Old school style. Heather honey, chocolate and wood are the main features. Could not find the perfumy style (which I hate as well), think FWP of 1980s Bowmores.Overall a bit refrained.
No water added.

First taste of a 100ml sample.