Tastes

Smoke, sweet, slightly sharp and rushed, but very mild! Very middle of the road, it is not much to it, but absolutely not bad for what it is. For the price, what it is, highly drinkable. Won't buy it again, only because it is not interesting. No excitement.

Thin, light, bland nothingness. Metallic, bad breath. Worse than I thought.

Compared to the 10: muted, not as peaty, less rich, less magic, more towards sharp green and sherry, less of the good magic moss and peat. Feels not happy. Revisited a few weeks later, now it's quite okay! Update: Keep getting better!

Clean malt, bright, soft vanilla butter cream, only a tiny bit sherry, fruit, ethanol. Decent, good, still on the mild side. Great value!

Probably my number one favourite non-peated, affordable, available single malt. Beautiful. Sweet, creamy, full, rich, happy, butterscotch and then just the right amount of spicy warm oaky bitterness. The ABV and no added color. Perfect.

Not extremely peaty. Fresh and dark, seaside, spiky, salt and pepper, almost aggressive, glides over to a malty liquorice, lingers, depth, peat, very nice. Delicious and happy!

Wonderful, great alternative to Springbank. Creamy rich vanilla and fruit, sea breeze sweet soft smoke. Mild peat, great malts. Fresh, happy, fireworks.

Malt, honey caramel, sweet, soft plum. Mild and tasty for what it is. Soft, short, decent, way better than anything else cheap. Less defined, less crisp Irish alternative. Ethanol at the end, but good enough for me!

Gateway to heavily peated magic. Sweet, medicinal, forest. Mild, dark, fisherman's friend, hint of tar, liquorice, seaside, earthy, moss, spruce kind of malt. Too bad the dumb 40% chill-filtered coloured contemporary version available here is just too soft. Still too good to ignore, repeated buy despite low ABV.

Beautiful! Subtle and pure biscuit magic, really adore this. Nice crisp oak and depth. ABV is way too low and price is questionable. Make it 43 or higher and then we can talk. The 15 year old is even better.