Drinking tip: A mouth-cleaning substitute for toothpaste
Tasting it removed any illusion of delicacy – intense smoke (fishing nets on that bonfire) and shovel-fulls of cigar ash – but intriguing acidic sweetness (reminiscent of Moffat toffees
Drinking tip: After dinner – or at least in an armchair by a log fire – first cold nights of autumn
Evocative flavours of Madagascar Bourbon vanilla
We were on the machair
Cask No. 48.43 Lowland Drinking tip: A mouth-cleaning substituteCask No. 48. 43 Pepper crop dusted over orchards Speyside, Spey Our noses were tickled by pepper, mustard, straw mats and sawdust, but it settled to jellied fruits, blackcurrant chews, orange jelly, fruity toffee, tinned pineapple and syrup sponge with custard. With water, those black pepper clouds parted and the sun shone on ripened orchard fruits (apple, pear, peach, apricot, cherry). The palate offered a warm peppery tingle, hinting at nutmeg and