Secret Orkney 19 Year Old 2005 Signatory Vintage Cask Strength (70cl, 54.3%)

This is a 19 year old single malt bottled by Signatory Vintage as Secret Orkney, from a first-fill sherry butt. It was distilled on 7 May 2005 and bottled on 25 June 2024 at a cask strength of 54.3%, with an outturn of 623 bottles. The name belongs to Scotland's northernmost distillery, in the Orkney Islands, made famous in the late 18th century by the distiller-smuggler Magnus Eunson. The sherry cask lets peat show strongly on the nose. On the palate the peat is more generous, giving way to malty, lactic, fruity and earthy flavours.