Clan Denny (distilled at Girvan) 20 year old

Scooped-out spaghetti squash whole red bird’s eye chilies celery tops and country ham. It is redolent of sugary-sweet candies like Spangles (from the 1970s). Light and delicate initially moving into phases of vanilla sponge dried raspberry and peppery spices then the vegetal notes grow larger in the later phases. An enjoyable effort from refill cask #10439 but it fizzles out leaving a finish of light pepperiness heat and sodden newspapers. £88