To retain the trademark style of the spirit, very true to this Islay distillery profile, we chose a very short finish of 8 months in a third fill Virgin Oak hogshead: the extremely peated, sooty, ashy notes are fully preserved, and the oak plays a limited role. At the nose it’s pungent, very smoky only slightly creamy, with a slightly vegetal touch. At the palate it doesn’t show any fatness: it’s slightly oily, tarry, but otherwise very clean and direct. There is a pleasant malty sweetness, a trace of vanilla, but otherwise it’s mineral, extremely peated, maritime and punchy. While very smoky and young, it has good balance and finesse. The finale is long, ashy, warm but without any heaviness of thickness: powerful but agile.