Macallan Fine Oak 15 YearsColour: straw yellow.Nose: Wild flowers, quite noble, lots of oak spices. Palate: starts smooth and sweet like thinned maple syrup but that turns woody, green and piney but all…

I decided to try this one on a side-by-side “neat and iced” tasting. Quite a contrasting difference – perhaps I’ll taste this way in future. When it won the award, I asked my brother in Vancouver to pick…

Colour: light brown with red.Nose: At first smell to me it’s sawdust or burnt wood (light), that smell you get when you drill through wood then it eases to be more like fresh oak wood chips, then some…

As the title says, i find it like lemon butter sponge cake on the nose, but then on the palate seems dry and nutty and the barley comes through.

Nose: Cereal, fruit salad, vanilla, citrus, peach. Very inviting.Palate: Herbaceous, vinous (Riesling and Chardonnay), syrupy orchard fruit, biscuit, fresh orange blossom.Finish: Sultana, citrus, malt…

Packed with orchard fruit, custard cream and cinnamon spice.