Alcohol: 46
Region: Highlands
Color: Crystal-bright greeny gold
Nose: Steely, slightly smoky
Body: Soft and rounded
Palate: Clean, sweet and fruity, then nutty; developing cereal-grain oiliness, bread and butter pudding
Finish: Gently spicy
First Tasted: August 2007
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205
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Alcohol: 43
Region: Highlands
Color: Deep bronze gold
Nose: Deep flowery aromas; light, fresh peatiness; a hint of sherrish oak; appetizing
Body: Firm but smooth
Palate: Flowery and sweet at first, then developing a peach-stone nuttiness
Finish: Lightly dry, appetizing; a very long interplay of sweet and bitter flavors
First Tasted: March 2005
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Alcohol: 43
Region: Highlands
Color: Primrose
Nose: Soft, with fresh sandalwood, vanilla, and wild mint
Body: Light to medium, very smooth
Palate: Notably soft and malty sweet, with butterscotch, vanilla, and honey
Finish: Buttercups, juicy, then a late saltiness, and dry
First Tasted: August 2004
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Alcohol: 43
Region: Lowlands
Color: Very pale
Nose: Perhaps toasted marshmallow
Body: Light to medium
Palate: Malty sweet, yet somehow not overbearing; marshmallow, powdery icing sugar
Finish: Very smooth, dry, coconut
First Tasted: March 2003
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Alcohol: 40
Region: Islay
Color: Pale gold
Nose: Toffee with a hint of smoke and peat
Body: Very light
Palate: Thin but pleasant; sweet at first with smoky notes, then gradually becoming drier
Finish: Faint, and with any water at all disappears
First Tasted: March 2006
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Alcohol: 43
Region: Highlands
Color: Full gold
Nose: Appetizingly fresh and clean with a light, malty, sweetness and hint of dry perfumy smokiness
Body: Medium, soft, smooth
Palate: Sweet but not overpoweringly so; developing some gingery, perfumy dryness
Finish: Slightly chewy
First Tasted: November 2002
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Alcohol: 43
Region: Highlands
Color: Full gold
Nose: Light, fresh, peaty, appetizing
Body: Medium, very smooth and firm
Palate: Sweet, some syrupiness, nutty finish, rounded, gentle
Finish: Lightly dry, peaty, toasty, warming
First Tasted: February 2004
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Alcohol: 40
Region: Highlands
Color: Bronze
Nose: Big and clean with some sherry sweetness
Body: Firm
Palate: Crisp, dry at first with sweet sherry and malty tones filling out as it develops
Finish: Long and spicy
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Alcohol: 43
Region: Highlands
Color: Amber
Nose: The oloroso sherry cask does not mask the heathery and honeyish notes, nutty
Body: Medium, soft
Palate: Sherrish sweetness at first, a hint of liqorice, then malty and woody
Finish: Rich, longer than usual, honey finish with hints of sweet oak
First Tasted: April 2007
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187
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Alcohol: 46
Region: Highlands
Color: Pale gold
Nose: Fruity, hints of apple, big, fresh
Body: Medium, rich
Palate: Sweet and dry, fruity, leafy, sparks with flavor
Finish: Rounded, herbal
First Tasted: June 2007
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191
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Alcohol: 40
Region: Highlands
Color: Amber
Nose: Smoky, garden-bonfire sweetness, heathery, malty; a hint of sherry
Body: Medium, exceptionally smooth
Palate: Succulent with a smoky dryness; heather-honey sweetness and maltiness
Finish: Heathery and smoky
First Tasted: October 2003
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Alcohol: 43
Region: Highlands
Color: Gold
Nose: Very aromatic, dry, faintly phenolic, lightly peaty
Body: Firm, slightly oily
Palate: Remarkably smooth, long lasting flavor development, aromatic, heather-honey notes give way to a cut grass, malty sweetness that intensifies to a sudden burst of peat
Finish: Very long
First Tasted: September 2002
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Alcohol: 40
Region: Highlands
Color: Full amber
Nose: Lots of sherry
Body: Medium, soft
Palate: Sherrish sweetness at first, then malty and grassy-peaty notes, apples, finally nutty, and dry
Finish: Lingering, flowery
First Tasted: August 2005
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Alcohol: 43
Region: Islay
Color: Full gold
Nose: Peaty, smoky malty
Body: Light, dry, nutty, malty, smooth
Palate: Cookie-like maltiness, ferny, smoky, then the sea air gradually emerges
Finish: Sweet smoky nuttiness
First Tasted: March 2006
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Alcohol: 43
Region: Highlands
Color: Deep lemony gold
Nose: Sweet, very spicy, cakey
Body: Soft but becoming almost grainy as it drys on the tongue
Palate: Unusually buttery, barley sugar sweetness at first - toffeeish, chewy, nutty and seed-like as it drys
Finish: Short and sweet, some rummy warmth
First Tasted: September 2004
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