Our sense of vision is pretty shitty in the animal kingdom. Compare it to a cat that can see better in the dark, or a hawk that can see much further, or even owls which got bits of both. But have any of them invented pop tarts? No, so let’s stick with humans for now.

So with my puny, not-even-great-vision-for-a-human (I wear glasses, 4/20 vision), I sawMortlach 31 1987 Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice – Cask Strength, the deep black-ish colour, and immediately smitten. Which isn’t something I should immediately be. I’m only human, of course.

But just take a second to look at how dark that is. So when I had a chance to try a sample of this, I jumped at it. And the person offering stated my sad physical momentum upward wasn’t needed, and I only needed to ask.

So what do we have here…