Another bottling from Duncan Taylor under the Battlehill name, bottled at 43% and youngish at 8 years old. The nose is of over ripe banana, toffee, tinned fruit salad, cedar and dry dusty malt with a very slight metallic back ground. After a few minutes green notes pop up; cut grass and some pepper followed by some sweetness. An intriguingly pleasant nose. After another short period the dry dusty malt (think of being in the malt barns or even in close proximity to the mill). The taste is clean and vibrant and very fruity at first followed by malt and jam like flavours. Huge fruit and malt that goes on and on. After a very short period chocolate pops up (dark chocolate) with a continuation of the malt and banana theme. The finish is of malt, hints of leather, liquorice and fruit and mildly bitter cold tea (depends whether you take sugar in your tea I suppose) and a final dramatic arrival of the combined dusty dry malt (huge) and banana.

What a pleasant dram.

Score 84 points.

C$68 (a steal). http://www.duncantaylor.com/