A gardener’s work is never done

Nosing this, we were working in the garden – drying flowers, trimming rhubarb, dead-heading geraniums and picking herbs – plus sipping cocoa while arranging a fruit bowl. On the palate we raided that fruit bowl (mandarin, apricot and juicy peach) and found a finishing flourish of almonds, cinnamon and pepper. The reduced nose introduced toffee, amaretti biscuits, rum and raisin fudge, polished furniture and oak logs. The silky-textured palate combined vanilla, banana and peach cobbler with later hints of tobacco and leather. At eight years of age, we combined selected casks from the same distillery. We then returned the single malt into a variety of different casks to develop further. This is one of those casks.