North Port - Rare Malts - E. Highland - 20 year old - 61.2% vol

From the RM series released in 1999 at cask strength. Distilled in 1979. Bottle number 3294. Box slightly crumpled.

Colour: gold.

Nose: starts all on ‘good’ paraffin and wax, somewhat ala Old Clynelish. Goes on with acacia honey, honeysuckle and a little ham as ‹ell as wet stones and chalk. Also wild flowers (all of them) and hints of pepper and peat. This is superb and certainly very sleek!

Mouth: quite some wax again, the whole not being tired at all. A whole basket of fresh fruits (pink grapefruits, pineapples) makes this one as drinkable as fruit juice, actually. Gets jammier and more camphory with time, with also a beautiful pepper and quite some natural mastic (sweets or Turkish delights). Gets then enjoyably bitter (not too soft olive oil), which ads to the complexity of the whole. I must say this is brilliant.

Finish: not excessively long, fading away very elegantly,