It’s an interesting concept to make a cold weather whisky in Scotland. It’s seldom exactly warm here. Dalwhinnie Distillery is at a high altitude in a beautiful, fairly remote location and does tend to get some pretty typically ‘Scottish’ weather. They suggest you serve straight from the freezer. To my taste, it enhances the spicy notes, but dulls some of the lighter flavours. The upfront flavour is a wide range of spices and a good hit of alcohol. It has a sweet honey note and a background of light smoke, but mostly it’s the spice that dominates - pepper, chilli, cinnamon. The flavour develops to bring out the fruit, apple and orange, but this is very much second fiddle to the spice. It has a pleasant medium long spicy, peppery finish. For it’s cheap price point, this is a very lovely dram. I’ve gone through a few bottles of this already and it will have a regular place in my cabinet.