Fettercairn Fior

This official Fettercairn, at 42%. Fettercairn is a fruity Highland malt made on mountain water under the Grampian foothills. The cooling rings raise reflux and copper contact, so only the lightest vapours rise, for a tropical spirit.

It was drawn off the stills, the cooling rings raising reflux for a fruity spirit, giving the light, pineapple led Highland spirit. Finished in an Oloroso cask, the wood building over the fruity, light spirit. With no age statement, the oak has given vanillin as vanilla and oak lactones as coconut over the tropical, fruity spirit. The cool Highland air of the Mearns gives a slow, even maturation in the dunnage warehouses. Years in oak round the spirit, the pineapple and citrus deepening to a mango. It uses unpeated malt and matures mostly in American oak ex-Bourbon casks.

At an approachable 42% it is light and tropical. Pineapple, citrus and a soft vanilla, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. The mouthfeel is clean, the fruit carried on a light body. The close is light and warming, fruit over a gentle oak. This is Fettercairn, one of Scotland's oldest licensed distilleries.