Nose: Blueberries, forest strawberries, snozzberries, and orange supremes layered onto mascarpone cream on a graham cracker crust.
Palate: Mandarin cuties dominate, blood orange, orange blossom honey, grapefruit zest, cinnamon, caramelized nuts.
Rating: 7 / 10 – a delightful sweet sip.
Nose: dark grapes fruit leather, tangerine peel, a fishing tackle box, oat milk, red juicy plums,
Palate: powerful oak forward character with, cloves, licorice, chicory and red grape tannins, old timey rootbeer barrel
Rating: 5 (Ryan) 6 (Shane) / 10 – oak monster. Either you like that… or poor ryan, you don’t.
Nose: Butterscotch, fresh goatsmilk, cornbread with a dollop of butter.
Palate: Nice touch of sweetness on this that compliments the wood, cedar, cinnamon life cereal. Leather on the finish. Scotch tape.
Rating: 6 (Ryan) 5 (Shane) / 10 – somehow manages to be both quite drinkable and yet someone ubiquitous, the nose is more enticing than the palate.
Nose: Kumquat marmalade, endives, cointreau flambeed crepes or creme brulee, honey, rose petal hand lotion, sandalwood.
Palate: Orange cream soda, bitters, nutmeg, cedar, sandalwood, the ultra heavy dark ryle sourdough I got in germany, that nearly outweighs a brick, leather.
Rating: 6 / 10 – reminds me of the irishman brown ale finished whisky with its dark breadiness.
Nose: Intensely garden patch, violet, green wood, green bell pepper, cedar
Palate: did not expect elegance. such a delightful blend of violets and wood, the mouth feel is velvety and syrupy. Roasted bell peppers and fresh fish on a cedar plank. Quickly sauteed mushroom with browned butter, and coffee grounds. Finish is long and full of leather, coffee, and the lingering violets.
Rating: 7 (Ryan) 6 (Shane) / 10 – Ryan loves the interplay between the floralness and the deep wood character. I acknowledge the beauty of the dram that way I often look at a super model and can see how she is beautiful, but wouldn’t want to marry her.
Nose: Begonia, mustard seed, turmeric, all spice
Palate: Indian spice ball blend, interesting and fun; cardamom, dijon mustard, cinnamon, turmeric, cedar chips, pickling spices: allspice, coriander, bay leaves. Unrefined maple syrup.
Rating: 7 / 10 – Been fasting. Doing bloodwork tomorrow. Perhaps the tasting was unwise. But damn this good. So there is that. What is crazy is how different this is from the 50% release a couple years prior. Both lovely, but this rocks. Its gets better with time in the glass.
Nose: light green olive brine, browned butter, subtle stone fruit, vanilla, oak, charcoal briquette, kombucha, cold cigarette smoke from the day before
Palate: interesting sweetness, turkish apricots, unripe plums, and the boom bitterness of aspirin and green bell pepper, very very strong oak, touch of matchstick
Rating: 3 (Ryan / Shane) / 10 – the latest 15 year releases are just plain weird. While this isn’t sulfury, its sulfur adjacent enough for me not to enjoy it.
Nose: grape jolly rancher, sarsaparilla, salted dark licorice, anchovy, dry old wallet
Palate: copper, grape electrolytes, both artificial and salty. a lick of port reduction on a cutlet. Cut globe grapes in tonic.
Rating: 5 / 10 (Ryan / Shane) – this is an odd one. It’s both enjoyable and kind of hard to drink. In ryan words … I think I like it… maybe… It’s a fun little ride?
Nose: rum raisin ice cream, grape nerds / poprocks, nougat, cold wood cabin, tomato vine (after some time and sipping)
Palate: ice sweetness at the front, vanilla, rum raisin ice cream from the nose, less grapey, nice quality wood, a strong grape vinegar kombucha vibe, black tea, that core modern Balcones sour note. Tried it with a big splash of water and it becomes elegantly grapey with a gnarly bitter note. Better at full proof.
Rating: 6 (Ryan / Shane) / 10
Nose: Masala, cardamom, mahogany, dates, bay leaves, lightest touch malt vinegar
Palate: Oh sweet wonderful oloroso child. Indian spices.
Rating: 6 / 10 – montilla casks finished in oloroso
Nose: Honey, pomegranate molasses, soft gooey dates, dark coffee caramel, I accidentally pour in a large wallop of water after first tasting and the nose just came to life. Witches fingers grapes, braggs aminos.
Palate: The peat to port combo is really nice and works, this could be an amrut. Honey, stonefruits, indian earthy spices, Cinnamon, leather, chocolate covered espresso beans, banana chips, tobacco, grapefruit, with water get sandalwood.
Rating: 6 / 10 – frankly if this was just a little hot, I’d love a bottle, But my lord it burns. The sweetness and hint of smoke really really work. Added water and this could be a 7 with water.
Nose: Peat is lovely and gentle, tangerine, waking up early in the mountains and a cabin across the valley has their wood fire up as the smoke curls lazily on a warm wind, jasmine, with water I get more cinnamon
Palate: Tangerine, cinnamon honey stick, graham crackers with a hint of tasted marshmallow, bruleed super ripe fig, with water nutmeg, and hints of chocolate
Rating: 8 / 10 – holy crap this is just damn good. Not weird novelty good. But delicious.
Nose: Exotic woods, sandlewood, potpourri, wintergreen, with water this nose comes to life: vietnamese cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, rose hip, camphor
Palate: Rye toast with marmite spread and an espresso shot. Chocolate covered espresso beans, Carrob, leather… I would totally add this to a mole sauce… with water it explodes with vanilla, and the cinamon… a mexican hot chocolate.
Rating: 7 as is, a 9 with water / 10 – a hands down amazing pour, but I could only handle one bottle of this. But with water, holy shit it’s even better.
Nose: Sharp on the nose, very grain forward, with some water get some green apple, vanilla, grapefruit zest
Palate: Sharp on the palate, cinnamon cracker, cardboard
Rating: 3 / 10 – does not taste like a single malt, more like a grain spirit. It’s too sharp and even water didn’t save it. More like baddy baddy.
Nose: Anchovies, olive brine with a salty vinegar vibe, lime leaves, getting sulfur warnings but to be seen. Smells like of rancid.
Palate: Taste me … or better, don’t. Dates… nope, I’ve spit it out twice. It’s everything I can’t handle about sulfur.
Rating: 1 / 10 – that is just terrible. It’s not just the sulfur, everything about it is disharmonious.
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