Millstone 5 Year Old peated

This bottle comes in a lovely black wooden hinged case. The bottle is wide shouldered, 700ml frosted glass. The thing I can't understand before I have even tasted the whisky is why they would go to all this trouble in terms of presentation and then use the cheapest, most light weight plastic cork with balsa wood stopper top. It feels so incredibly cheap you can hardly believe it came off this very same bottle (but i can forgive this).

Other than that it is nicely done. Another thing I like is the fact that they use windmills to mill the malted barley the traditional way. Hence the the name, Millstone.

Bright gold in colour, nose of peat, smoke, sweet vanilla, stewed apricots.

The mouth feel is clean and light. Smoke upfront followed by candied fruit and a pepper tang.

Finish is long, smoky and mellow.

Bottle number 1645, cask 65, distilled 05.02.2005, bottled 25.05.2012. They call is a 5 yr but clearly this is nearer 7 years. In the Netherlands the angels share is apparently 4-5% so it matures faster than Scotch.

I like this a lot, well made and very drinkable.