Tasting notes Serge Valentin: 92 points (WhiskyFun.com)

One of United Distillers’ early keros… I mean, high-volume peaters. I had it at WF 91 until today, let’s see if fifteen additional years of bottle aging will have changed anything…

Colour: dark straw.

Nose: sweet Vishnu, this one hits you! Right between your eyes! Seriously, it will bring tears to your eyes, as well as a feeling of farmy wellness, I would say. We’re wandering throughout an old farm in the middle of nowhere, there’s some petrol on the floor, a rusty old truck, some cows, a lot of hay, an old dog (sorry, dogs), and bizarrely, a pile of old kelp drying in a corner of the yard. The old truck’s also lost a lot of engine oil over the recent years. With water: dung, some cleaner kind of horse dung, and a rather Brora-y feel.

Mouth: great! Totally vertical, much cleaner on the palate, all on lemon juice, peat, brine, kippers and tar. I know, that was short. With water: ooh it’s hitting harder when reduced, getting much tarrier, peatier, greasier (we’re talking graphite oil blended with liquid tar), and then very salty and very lemony, which always, strictly always works.

Finish: long, very salty. Oysters with a little curry and pepper. Less lemon this time.

Comments: well bottle aging didn’t do much to it, it’s still a huge brute. We’ll try it again around 2050.