Sweet and floral aromas of dried lavender, honeysuckle and burning heather danced alongside runny honey on scorched toast, dried seaweed and seashells in a pencil box. The palate carried a weight and heft like dark beer with red liquorice, smoky bacon crisps and kippers before lavender honey and cherry jam coated burnt marshmallows.

As we added water more maritime aromas of oily fish skins, rock pools and cured salmon bellowed forth alongside crab and lobster served on a bed of flowers. Now cloves and pickled ginger complemented haggis, smoked salmon and sticky cough mixture flavoured with blackberries and honey. At seven years 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.