It’s certainly not the first time we try this one but since we always adored it, let’s try it again, this time H2H with a darker version. Colour: straw. Nose: what a beautiful sharpness and what a beautiful minerality! Extremely elegant, zesty, flinty, waxy and mineral, with a profile that really resembles some Clynelishes’ (not all). Say, the best 1983’s for example. The peat takes off only after a few minutes, together with wood ashes, coal oven and hints of mint and eucalyptus. Ah, yes, and a little grapefruit. Truly grand! Mouth: sweet but very nervous, with quite some peat, bitter oranges, liquorice and mint. Cough medicine. OBE staring to show off. Gets a little more peppery and citrusy (more oranges, tangerines, lemons.) A tad less complex than on the nose but still pretty stunning. Finish: amazingly long at 43% ABV and after all these years in its bottle, even if it’s a bit ‘narrower’ at this point. Comments: we had this wonder at 93 before and won’t change that.

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