Every now and then a whisky (or perhaps my palate) will play a trick on me.  This happened when I sat down to taste Hazelburn 12 year old.  Hazelburn is of coures the unpeated expression from Springbank... and everyone knows that there is no peat in Hazelburn.  OK... everyone with a whisky a blog knows that (but that is still a shed load of people).  I definately knew that.  Yet something in this suggested "peat" to me in this one.  I know there is no salt in Highland Park... but I can taste it!  So the notes below reflect what I wrote at the time and I will have to go back at some point and try it again in a different environment.  The nose is sweet and nutty with pepper (like peppered cashews) and l also I get a sweet peaty note.  The taste is smooth at first, even creamy, then caramel sweetness, citrus fruits and spice begins to build in the chest and takes over into the finish.  The finish is warming and rich, a fire in chest (not burning but glowing) and again there's a note I want to say is peat but might just be an oak spice!  The citrus turns into grapefruit  peel behind the warmth.  The addition of water increases fruit character and creaminess.  Very nice...forceful but not a bully.