Sherry and smoke on the weighty nose, with ginger, orange peel, toffee and vanilla. Significantly smokier on the palate than the 12-year-old it replaces, with orange, treacle toffee, dark chocolate and a Sherried nuttiness. Fettercairn is one of the oldest licensed distilleries in Scotland. The name Fettercairn means ‘foot of the mountain’ and on visiting this peaceful place you can understand the foresight of the person that named the town. Natural ingredients abound: from ice-clear Grampian mountain spring water to barley grown from fertile soil. This is perfect whisky country, and these natural qualities have been harnessed to produce a stunningly pure malt whisky.