Nose: Opens with a buttery sweet quality layered with vanilla in a home-baking style.

Palate: Smooth, fresh & sweet with ripe fruit developing to spiced oranges.

Finish: Medium-long, with spices more apparent now, running to ginger and pink pepper.

Independently owned, the distillery first opened in 1949 near Blackford in Perthshire but was mothballed between 1995 and 2011
This is an independent bottling of 414 bottles from a single refill Hogshead by Douglas Laing (Cask DL12131).

Fettercairn is one of the few Eastern Highland distilleries still operating and has enjoyed some serious investment from owners Whyte & Mackay in recent years. This 8 year old improves upon the old distillery bottling.
This 8 year old Fettercairn single malt whisky, bottled in 2021, is one of 410 bottles aged exclusively in a refill hogshead.

Nose:
Honey, barley, nuts and malted milk biscuits

Palate:
Fudge and sweet spices, think honey and lemon Hot Toddy's with all the trimmings

Finish:
Dry, mellow and sweet finish with malt and honey showing

Situated in Abelour, the heart of Speyside, Benrinnes is highly prized as blending material and was seldom seen as a Single Malt until owners Diageo released it in their Flora & Fauna series in the early 1990's.

Nose: Candied citrus peels developing to cut grass plus a sweet / creamy gristy quality.

Pallet: Stewed rhubarb with ginger and custard alongside spiced oak.

Finish: Long... fresh, tangy green fruits, apple crumble with a touch of vanilla and allspice.

Nose: Polished oak floors initially developing to seaweed, juicy berries and candied toffee apple

Palate: Gentle spice, stewed fruits and BBQ’d meat with a salty tang and Islay barley

Finish: Long with Islay peat smoke to the fore alongside raisins, plums and a warning, nutty quality

Ledaig is a heavily-peated single malt produced at the Tobermory distillery (in contrast with the non-peated Tobermory single malt). The two malts are produced using the same stills, wash backs, mash tuns and the same process water but the two are totally different in character due to the malted barley used.