We imagined a barbecue at sundown with hickory smoked bacon and pork ribs garnished with hot chili peppers and lime juice; oyster sauce and French onion soup; the kick of earthy tequila.

The unreduced taste was explosive-smoked paprika on chalk, Frazzles of graphite; honey-comb wax. With water, the nose evoked the coast- iodine and seaweed; pebbles Machair and marram grass; then, toasted marshmallow sweetness. Someone said ‘it’s like holding a shell to your ear for your nose-the aromas just keep rolling in’. The reduced palate was of barbecue after rain, ashy yet sweet, with peat cone burning into the night.

Distilled in 2000

***ONLY 410 BOTTLES MADE. 64.4%ABV***