Auchroisk

Not a particularly well-known malt - but one from the Diageo stable. Auchroisk apparently means "ford of the red stream" in Gaelic, referring to the Milben Burn which the distillery uses as it's process water. It mainly goes into blends, including the J&B brand. It's a back-up production site for Gordon's gin, should anything too bad happen to Cameronbridge and it's still room, constructed in 1972, was used as a model for Diageo's Roseisle distillery.

I'm guessing this is from the Flora and Fauna 10 year old bottling, which replaced the Singleton in 2001.

Kicking off with quite a closed nose. Hints of clove and nut. Rounded and full.
Immediately quite thin with a spicy hotness on the palate. Waking up to a oilier mid-palate with a touch of salt, perhaps a bit of baked fish. A chance of olive oil and chilli spice or trace of hot pepper sauce. Clean and not overtly complex with a reasonably short finish that ticks off some apple and green stalks with a faint bitterness counterbalancing the initial sweetness.
Slightly one-dimensional but plays a reasonable riff throughout.