Designing The Whisky
David immediately enlisted the help of Jim Swan, a whisky consultant whom he had first met at various sensory science meetings in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Perhaps not surprisingly in view of their shared background, they both thought that the distillery should be reversed engineered, starting with the sensory profile of the whisky they wanted to make. (This is one of Jim's greatest skills -- or so he tells us!). All concerned believed that the primary expression of Annandale should be smoky/phenolic, as it had been in the past; quite a departure from the modern genre of Lowland Single Malts!