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First release. Great balance!
Nose: this is something magical ... A sweet creamy cake, citrus, vanilla, mint, light honey, candies, and against the backdrop of all this diversity there is a light haze of a fire ... Great!
Taste: pastries, butter cream, honey, old salty wooden support of the pier ... ash ...
Finish: long and pleasant ... Heat ... At the receptors, honey and butter cream are the basis, and all this is sprinkled with ash.

On the nose, immediately, a winning combination of generous fruits and a light peat and earth, the two completions melted. After a careful examination, they are fresh fruits, such as apples and pears, whose freshness is indisputable. We also have a slight bitter - and pleasant - note evoking coffee, and also malt. On the palate, with a very smooth touch of mouth, very nice balance of sweet spices, fruits, malt and also a sweet note, all complemented by a small note of earthy peat on the tongue. I think I detect this "Cambeltown style" that I loved in the Kilkerran, but without being able to put more precise words that would help you to define it. I read afterwards a lot of comments on the supposed saline side of this dram, but this feeling did not appear to me blatantly during the tasting. Vinous notes (red wine) in the finale, very enveloping at first, then it evolves in length (very large for the rest) to give something a little mineral that I did not like. This is the only mini-reproach I can make this beautiful whisky, which I did not see fit to add water because I was convinced he was titrating at 43 ° during my tasting, it is to say if the alcohol is well integrated.

Enthusiasm 4/5