Thrills up the Ochils

Meandering across an ice cream parlour's range of flavours, our noses delighted in scoops of rum and raisin, salted caramel, chocolate-toffee and marzipan fruitcake. The palate added a splash of sweet red wine to a slab of nougat, sliced stone fruits glazed with apple jelly and the sweet-spiced tones of a Manhattan cocktail. Water gave both the nose and palate notes of cherry, spiced orange, flapjack and a red berry finish. 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.