Nose: Fresh and fruity – freshly cut melon, green apple and pear – along with hot toast and honey with a sprinkling of freshly grated nutmeg.
Palate: Lovely smooth texture, with rich honeyed fruit freshened up with crisp apple notes. Gentle, sweet spice adds to the complexity. Very drinkable.
Finish: The rich mouth feel lingers, with the honeyed fruit lasting longest. Good balance.
Nose: The gin has juniper notes with hints of orange, pink grapefruit and vanilla.
Palate: Smooth and slightly sweet, with juniper notes.
Finish: Clean, smooth with lingering refreshing finish.
Nose: Strong juniper notes with a delicate balance of spice, peppery notes and lemon sherbet.
Palate: Smooth and slightly sweet, with juniper notes.
Finish: Clean, smooth with lingering refreshing finish.
Nose: Buttery cinnamon toast, concentrated raisin in the background, astringent woody touches, glacé cherry, barrel char.
Palate: Big sweet butter hit, with maple syrup, brown sugar, plump raisins, nutmeg, milk chocolate and more of the char from the nose.
Finish: Medium length, with chocolate, raisins and more char.
Nose: Rich and complex, milk chocolate and butterscotch combine with ripe peach and orange zest.
Palate: Perfect structure - initial notes of soft apricot and cream offset by developing flavours of liquorice and oak with a touch of honey.
Finish: Very long and balanced, progresses from creme brulee to a gentle oak flourish.
Nose: Crunchy barley sugar, sharp apples, cracked stones and lashings of smoke. Damp seaweed, rock pools and mossy stones stick out from behind the smoke, followed by tarry ropes, burning pine needles, singed lemon peel and barbecued apples.
Palate: Crisp apples, ash and a big hit of damp peat smoke to start. Gravel and burnt logs develop along with sea-spray brininess. The dryness disappears under a wave of lemon and apples, before reasserting itself with a shovel of driveway gravel and ash.
Finish: Fresh leather, creosoted fences and piles of lemon peel.
Nose: Sweet peat, coal, Caramac bars, a faint floral soapy note, pepper and chilli.
Palate: Very soft, mellow entry, then the spices and peat come through in a big way. Powerful, but with a balancing sweetness. Great length.
Finish: Long and warming, with the smoke and pepper lasting longest.
Nose: Expressive, crisp barley sugars. Touch of wood smoke, toffee.
Palate: Rich and sweet. Barley and caramel, very gentle peat.
Finish: Soft and sweet, fudge
Nose: Chocolate and raspberry aromas, with rich brioche and stewed cherries.
Palate: Cherries and raspberries combine with sponge cake, spicy cinnamon and black pepper.
Finish: Sweet spice, red fruit, rich sponge cake.
Nose: The aroma is rich with notes of tropical fruits, namely passion fruit, and creamy toffee.
Palate: Sweet vanilla forms a creamy palate with notes of apples and mangoes with a hint of orange in the background.
Finish: The finish lingers with a vanilla focussed character.
Nose: Polished wood, cake spice, Danish pastries, dessicated coconut, vanilla cream, Cadbury’s Fruit and Nut bars.
Palate: Oily mouthfeel, soft sweet caramel, lightly spiced wood, good apple pie (stewed apples, lightly sweetened pastry and a few raisins thrown in for good measure), a cinnamon tingle and a hint of Mars Milk.
Finish: Sweet and fruity with a touch of fruit polish. Lingering rich caramel turns slowly to good old wood.
Nose: Elegant. White peach and a faint puff of smoke.
Palate: A gentle, subtle palate with loads of complexity. It offers up a mix of cranberries and cooked raspberries, a little white grape juice and barley.
Finish: Cocoa, slightly bitter as it tails away gracefully.
Nose: Appetising combo of smoke and caramelised pineapple with a heady hit of tropical fruit.
Palate: Some lovely smokiness, but the fruity elements really sing here: pineapple, peach and mango all dancing with the smoke that surrounds them. Great balance.
Finish: Rather soft and relaxing, with the smoke gently fading.
Nose: A creamy, aromatic melange of vanilla custard, hints of aniseed, lemon curd and butter toffee. Wood shavings and dried banana chips develop with just a hint of cassis.
Palate: More of those banana chips showing through on the palate, this time there's a creamy hit of barley malt too, pepped up with a little allspice. Notes of ground walnut and caramel.
Finish: Light spice and black pepper on the tail. Lingering notes of cereal sweetness.
Nose: Powerful orange and peach notes, backed up by juicy barley.
Palate: Butterscotch, red apple and caraway. A touch of grain sweetness in the background.
Finish: Heavy vanilla and pear on the finish.
Nose: The nose offers marmalade and malt, a hint of custard, coconut ice and nutmeg.
Palate: Winter spices and malt on the palate with barley, Seville orange marmalade and oak.
Finish: The finish is spiced and warming with oak and cinnamon.
Nose: Aromatic, toffee, fruit salad, lush nectarine, custard. Floral, apple blossom, honeysuckle. Apple peels, pear, touch of smoke.
Palate: Malty. Walnuts steeped in manuka honey with vanilla sponge. Gentle smoke weaves its way through the cereal with a touch of spice.
Finish: Long, malty, walnut, almond.
Nose: A perfectly balanced blend of Scottish heather and honey with delicate notes of unripened pear and a hint of oak.
Palate: A delightful blend of soft vanilla with honey and blooming heather; well rounded with a slight smoky sensation emerging.
Finish: Medium finish, slightly dry with lingering heather/honey overtones, and the faintest touch of smoke.
Nose: Smooth juniper, citrus zest, heather and conifer cones form a delightful, soft nose.
Palate: A juniper-forward palate with tart lime peel and orange zest. Creamy vanilla blends with cool menthol, before ground coriander spice gives warmth and depth.
Finish: A creamy, medium-length finish. The warm spice lingers with a touch of sweetness.
Nose: A delightful floral character emanates from this liqueur with fruity white berry notes.
Palate: The palate has all the elderflower sweetness you could want, tempered by gin's naturally dry character.
Finish: Clean and floral with a pleasing dryness.
Nose: Soft floral notes, with sweetness and a light citrus finish.
Palate: Candied, with juicy fruit-filled flavours and a touch of zest.
Finish: A lingering flavour of rose, balanced by the tang of lively fruit from the pomegranate.
Nose: A sweet, highly perfumed, rhubarb-filled aroma.
Palate: Bright sweetness and a sharp tang, balanced with a pop of citrus.
Finish: A lingering warmth from the ginger.
Nose: Lemon peels and peppery juniper. Refreshingly herbaceous.
Palate: Coriander, pine and sherbet lemon sweeties.
Finish: Lively on the finish - More lemon! More pine! A kick of cinnamon!
Palate: Candied fruits and Glenfiddich freshness balances richer notes of dried apricot, more cinnamon and toffee, ginger and dry Sherry.
Finish: Peels and a touch of salted toffee.
Overall: A wonderfully rich and enjoyable Glenfiddich single malt.
Nose: Barley sugar, malt and dark brown sugar, with orange peels, marmalade, manuka honey, chocolate and foam bananas.
Palate: Full, fruitcake, spices, buttery vanilla, malty, with oak and candied ginger.
Finish: Long, with notes of mochaccino and marmalade.
Nose: A light, aromatic NOSEwith hints of barley malt, almonds, hazelnuts and manuka honey/beeswax.
Palate: Very fruity palate with a mix of stewed fruits, dessert wine, apple peels and honey. Becomes quite oaky late palate.
Finish: A medium-length finish with barley and freshly mown grass…
Nose: Creamy and tangy notes of citrus, cinnamon, stewed fruits and caramel-drizzled pannacotta.
Palate: The palate is tropical and creamy with nectarines in yoghurt, acacia honey, peaches in cream and butterscotch.
Finish: Ends on tangy oak and grilled grapefruit with plenty of dark sugar caramelised on top…