Salted milk chocolate, pecans drizzled in honey, baked apples with a dusting of icing sugar. A very engaging palate, it asks to be sipped again; light and sweet at first, with malty characters of butter pastry and enduring mouthfeel.

Puffs of peat smoke and pools of honey, sharpened by lemon zest.

Salted fudge, rich leather, sweet dried apricot. Then on the palate there is orange blossom honey, sherry notes, delicate spice and lovely oily mouthfeel. Orange oil rolls back around to give a long finish that just keeps on going.

Distillery Notes: Vanilla, dark chocolate, orange and cinnamon on the nose. The palate brings dark chocolate, candied citrus fruits, rich coffee, nutmeg and soft liquorice, with citrus fruits and rich molasses on the finish.

Candied orange, sweet toffee apples and notes of old, polished wood on the nose. Notes of dried fruit and molasses follow into the palate but the finish is unexpectedly dry.

Sitting by the fire in a countryside tea room: lemon drizzle cake, sticky toffee pudding, apple tart and strong coffee, all by a smoldering fire. More of the same on the palate with lush orchard fruits joined by the more classic sherry notes of dried fruits, chocolate, spices and toffee, which endure into the finish.

Oosh! Stick your nose in that glass! There’s no denying the cask influence with lots of sherry, oak and plenty of spirit. Look beyond that, though, to notes of honey, baked apple and nutty toffee. Pepper and spice on the palate is balanced by a welcome creaminess and a long finish.

Oily, salty Arbroath Smokies, drizzled in lemon juice. Sweet maple and a touch of firewood. Let’s go fishing!