The nose context was a fruit market (pear, orange, lemon, lychee, cherry) but we also found a leather handbag containing fag packets and nail varnish and paper bags of assorted fudge (vanilla, rum and raisin, ginger).

The neat palate was quite an experience – apple pie, vanilla ice-cream, puff candy and honey sweetness, with menthol cigarette, aniseed and cardamom depth, while fizzy Vimto, soor plooms and white pepper popped playfully on the tongue.

The reduced nose developed pleasantly – Battenberg, Bounty Bars and champagne sorbet.

The palate continued to tingle and enervate – Lucozade, lemongrass and lollipop sticks.

From the first distillery in Rothes.