Color: Golden Yellow

Nose: Distinctly confident licorice-bourbon notes with near perfect bitter-sweet balance; burnt honeycomb and toffee also abound

Taste: Outstanding richness and sheen to the enormous barley-oak sweetness; again there is a big bourbony cut to the cloth with all the licorice and molassed sugar normally associated, but the barley adds that extra dimension

Finish: Long, wonderfully layered oak offering variations of a sweet dry theme; a touch silky with some cream toffee at the death

Liquid Gold Award, Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible