Tasting Notes
We have only just released our 14 year old expression which replaces our 12 year old. As such there are no independent tasting notes. It is indeed like its younger cousin but with a fuller body and a certain additional richness of flavour.
Distillery Tasting Notes - Scapa 14 year old
Heavy, butterscotch sweetness, dried fruits, subtle hints of orange
Perfectly balanced wild honey and heather, delicate spices
Very rich and long with a distinct dry after taste.
Independent Tastings
However we can offer you the words of independent tastings of our 12 year old. Two of the UK's most eminent whisky connoiseurs have written about Scapa 12 year old. We have also included tasting notes from the AWC from 1987.
Michael Jackson
Soft. Hay, with a hint of oily chocolate and vanilla. Warm.
Smooth. Chocolate, vanilla, nuts. Very lively and appetising.
Late salt and pepper, with a hint of rooty peat.
Scapa can seem a delicate whisky, but it is full of flavours, and deserves its growing following.
Jim Murray
An essay in elegance with a delicate honey note attached to the malt and heather. The smokelessness and resulting lack of weight easily distinguishes it from a Highland Park, despite the honey-heather.
Immediately malty and rich with a delicious spicy tingling of old oak. The honey holds the middle and interplays with the drier oak notes and juicier malt. Wonderfully complex.
Cocoa-rich notes and biscuity maltiness makes for a quite weighty finale, and some curious smoke even wafts in from somewhere.