Highland Park 9y/o SMWS 4.321 "Knitting with Peat" 64.5%ABV 30ml

SMWS notes: A superbly fresh and aromatic example with abundant notes of fresh linens drying by the shoreline, olive oil, trampled ferns, sea air, rock pools and beach pebbles. Mixed dried herbs, tea tree oil and a dash of liquid smoke. With water it became thicker with notes of hessian, dry earthiness, waxed canvass and an ethereal background peat smoke. The palate was initially a wonderful mix of sweet and salty: frying pancetta lardons, olive brine and sweet peat smoke. Sheep wool oils, camphor, aniseed and seared tuna. When reduced we found a lovely herbal-accented peat smoke, natural tar, mineral oils, bath salts and motes of salted almond, cough mixtures and seawater. At 5years of age, we combined selected casks from the same distillery. We then returned the single malt into a variety of different casks to develop further. This is one of those casks.