Information:

Distillery: Cragganmore^TM

Age: 12 years old

Strength: 43% ABV

Place of Origin: Ballindalloch

Region: Speyside

Taste:

in brief… Sweet fragrant aromas with smoke and malt.

in a sentence… Sweet and fragrant with a firm body and a malty taste; a long finish, with delicate aromas and light smoke.

Taste:

in brief… Sweet fruity aromas with malt, oak and smoke.

in a sentence… Sweet, intensely fruity fragrances and a deep oak-smoked malty taste, then a longish drying finish with plenty of oak character showing through.

Nose:

Jellybabies! Sweet, black ones - complete with powdery sugar. And, of course, malt. A tantalising aroma, much, much fruitier and more mouthwatering than the standard Cragganmore. Just a hint of smoke does linger.

Body:

Light to medium, with rich undertones.

Palate:

Firm, arousing stuff. Initially sweet with some deep smoky undertones and a rather off-beat fruitiness. Malt, oak and smoke seem to rumble around the base of the palate. An intriguingly two-tiered malt.

Finish:

Medium to long with a breathtakingly fine explosion of oaky expressions, running from bananas and vanilla to cocoa. Much drier than that very first sweet burst.