not my description, but I'll take it.
"Colour: gold.
Nose: the sea, nothing but the sea, maybe a little sherry. Kelp (both fresh and dried), seashells, iodine, wood smoke
(‘a bonfire on the beach’), peat smoke...
Add to that notes of Seville oranges, smoked tea (lapsang souchong), hints of white chocolate, hints of resin and camphor, smoked ham and sausages, bacon, whiffs of ‘clean’ wet dog, wild mushrooms... Truly fantastico, world-class malt, extremely well balanced and truly complex and complete. Mouth: a rich, candied and smoky attack, starting all on ‘smoked toffee’, bitter oranges and white pepper, maybe a little sweeter and less complex than expected after the fabulous nose, but still excellent. Gets a little more resinous and dry after a while, with also more sherry it seems. Big mint after that, mint-flavoured liquorice, tar and liquorice sweets... Picks up steam, especially the finish is long, thicker, on pepper, liquorice and cough sweets. Excellent, really. A slightly more complex palate would have propelled this one even higher than 90 points in my books."
