A not very heavy golden yellow slips into the glass, bold of its coloring and tending not to let us know what aging is inside (they say to vary from 8 to 25 years). On the nose the thing that immediately catches the attention is the peaty aspect, in its not being as intense as one would expect: the renewed barrels used for aging were burned again before use, just to give the toasted boost to the malt, but on the nose you find instead a light turbidity, almost in the background. Marine and sweet notes excel (alas!), with yellow fruit and butter biscuits. Unusually kind, perhaps the calm before the storm? Not exactly. On the palate alcohol is very present but not excessive, and the buttery aspect of the whisky remains decisively. The turbidity is there but far from being imposing, almost timid, the sweeter and pimp aspects prevail: still fruit, with a citrus note, pepper (Talisker, here it is!), again biscuits, malt (not so old) and seafaring, which acts as a glue to everything. I also perceive a little wood, non-invasive. In the finish, pepper and the marine aspect prevail, peat always just barely present, as if it were more a suggestion than a real perception, all for a not very long time.