Cask No. 42.77 XO the sweetness came through as

the sweetness came through as Lebkuchen

dry roasted almonds and just a suggestion of cocoa powder

The reduced nose found eucalyptus and laurel

A wonderful sense of meatiness and fatness of texture

Walk the talk

Cask No. 42.77 XO the sweetness came through asCask No. 42. 77 Smoke from a burning drum Highland, Island The nose evoked eating Frazzles on the beach with distant bonfire smoke until the tide washed the bonfire away. On the palate, that smoke was joined by sweet heat (chilli langoustines), birch sap, cinders and a mineral lick of salt and pumice. The reduced nose seemed like a cocktail of ash and brine, with a hint of oily mackerel eaten from old newspapers next to a burning oil drum (contents of