Tastes

Nose: Honeyed malt, dried red fruit, dates, fig jam. Palate: Lovely mouthfeel. Raisins, tobacco, woody spice. Finish: Dry tannic finish, subtle peppery spice.

Nose: Orchard fruits specifically red fruits like apple and also red grape. Heathland. A hint of malt. Palate: Creamy mouthfeel, crisp red apple, some vanilla custard sweetness. Finish: A slight peppery spice. Cooked apple. Slightly tannic.

Nose: Boozy spiced fruitcake. Sticky malt sweetness. Palate: Sweet caramel, stewed orchard fruits, peppery heat develops. Finish: Tannic pear skins. The fruitcake arrives and lingers.

Nose: Dried fruit, red berries, some cakey notes. Nutty on the retro. Palate: Dark sweet dried fruits, dark chocolate. Finish: Oak, red apple, sultanas, peppery spice. A touch of dryness develops.

Nose: Dry oak, rye bread, earthy, a hint of vanilla. On the retro the vanilla is more prominent. Palate: Packs a bit of peppery heat. Peachy. Finish: The pepper spice subsides to allow some red berry fruit to open up a little. Lingering heat from dry woody spice.

Nose: Woody, light pineapple syrup. Palate: Sweet, green apple, pineapple. A touch of vanilla. Finish: Baking spices. Subtle pineapple lingers.

Nose: Warm rye bread or dusty Ryvita slices. Tannic black tea. Malt loaf. Sticky toffee pudding. Palate: Rye bread spice, nutty, very malty. Finish: The spice turns peppery with the nuttiness intensifying. It's quite basic in terms of profile but that's not a bad thing. It offers a lot of punch neat and would hold its own in a cocktail. A few drops of water bring out the malt / toffee notes on the nose but oddly strips it out of the palate leaving more of the peppery heat. YMMV.

Nose: Brown sugar, cloves, citrus peel, raisins and a rum-like nose. Palate: A touch of oak and a developing ginger root spice. A sweetness like a rum with raisins and vanilla. Finish: Spicy and dry with a bit of sweetness lingering.

Nose: Jammy red berries and caramelised banana. Some light baking spices. Palate: Soft body. Honey and oak spice with some chewy red berry. Finish: Chocolate drizzled dried cranberries and strawberry. A touch of dryness. Comparing to the 10 year, the same base spirit is evident in the 16. The honey flavour is more prominent in the 10 and is rounded off by all the jammy notes that come from the port casks in the 16.

Nose: Sea salt, lemony citrus, sweet peat smoke. Palate: Light texture. Sweet green apple and a light vanilla cream. Dried green fruits. Finish: Woody, citrusy, sweet bbq smoke. The dried fruit intensifies.