The Light 17 Year Old was created to celebrate warm summer days when Orkney emerges from winter hibernation, ready to embrace the fresh air, clear skies and long days of summer, the whisky is light and bright, with a delicious warm-season-friendly palate having been left to mature for 17 years in refill American oak casks which have a more gentle influence that first-fill European oak casks. The result is a fine balance of caramelized pear, nutmeg, vanilla, cedarwood and lightly smoked peat… Orcadian Summer in a bottle.