Colour: Straw gold
but closed to begin with traces of cricket bats (faint wood and linseed oil)
The reduced nose suggested scorched coconut
Reduction offers up white mushrooms
gorse bush prickle and red apple
Cask No. 54.80 Heavily peated Colour: Straw goldCask No. 54. 80 Banana Mexicana Speyside, Spey It opens with foam shrimp sweeties, then buttermilk icing, carnations in a greenhouse, cornflakes, lemon bonbons, milk ice lollies and sunflower oil. A slick of milk chocolate melting in its wrapper and a scrunch of fresh mint. Add water and it dials up the aromatics giving sandalwood, potpourri, bay leaf, liquorice, white pepper, fresh linens, chamomile and eucalyptus drops in rosewater. The palate opens