The finish is long and floral. Alongside the honeysuckle and rose notes, lemon zest fades to allow deli- cate, exotic fruits like pineapple and melon to the fore. They too pass and leave just a hint of smoke from the charred American barrels. There is nowhere quite like Islay, it is a special place in the world and this whisky, influenced so much by a sense of place and the people who made it, proudly bears the islay name on its bottle and the islay soul in its spirit.