Chivas Regal 12 Year Old

Copper in colour. The bouquet is wonderfully creamy, aromatic melange of vanilla custard, hints of aniseed, lemon curd and butter toffee alongside subtle wood shavings and dried banana chips develop with just a hint of cassis. The palate is just as complex with more of those banana chips showing through on the palate, this time there's a creamy hit of barley malt too, pepped up with a little allspice. Notes of ground walnut and caramel. This is all finished off with light spice and black pepper on the tail. Lingering notes of cereal sweetness.

Chivas Regal is a world-famous Scotch blend which was first made in the early 20th century by Chivas Brothers. The company can trace its roots back to 1801, with the opening of a grocers at Number 13 King Street, Aberdeen. Selling luxury food, coffee and spices, it wasn't until half a century later that the company started to make whisky, and then not until post-US Prohibition that Chivas Regal 12 Year Old was first officially released.