Nose: Sultanas, oranges, sherry, vanilla, lemon oil, hints of pineapple, something spicy (maybe ground cinnamon?), old paper. Fairly fresh and fruity overall. Palate: Pleasantly dry on the arrival and into the development, but no hint of bitterness or sourness at any stage. Sherry and fruit are the initial flavours. The development brings a sweeter note and suddenly a most unexpected wave of rich sherried fruit cake with sweet preserved citrus peel, glacé cherries and almonds. Quite delicious. It's not a complex palate, just a few key flavour components, but they combine into a very pleasant whole. A good texture, if a little thin. Finish: Quite short, turning sweet and more like bread and butter pudding, dried fruits, a little sour/bitter hint of grapefruit, which is quite nice, and a lingering touch of aniseed or fennel. There is an unmistakable kinship between this and the Gold 1824 expression, but Amber is a definite step up. Richer overall with the fruitiness being more sweet/tropical instead of bright and bracing. The cereal notes are deeper as well, being more like cake than biscuits. I think the basic distillate is probably the same but just given different wood treatment. This is fairly cask-driven, but subtle about it. It's just coming into summer here and the day is clear and warm - this whisky suits it perfectly. Tasted from a 30ml sampler - I may buy a bottle and it would sit on the shelf next to Arran Lochranza Reserve and Compass Box Asyla. "Good" : 83/100 (3.5 stars)