Nose: Terry’s chocolate orange, grass, sulfur.
Palate: Milk chocolate, szechuan pepper, medjool dates, chow mein, milk candy.
Rating: 6 / 10 – rivesalt cask is very present
Nose: Cinnamon raisin oatmeal cookie, touch of peat, deep wood
Palate: Palate is tiptoeing on the very edge of the sulfur spectrum. or maybe Wine tannins. Something bitter that isn’t my vibe tight. Stale coffee. Touch moldy vibe. Chalky taste on the finish
Rating: 3 / 10 – smells nice but yuck
Nose: Sweet hickory smoke, incents
Palate: Juicy fruit, smoke, braggs aminos
Rating: 7 / 10 – simple sweet and fun
Nose: Some strange funk on the nose, along with white peaches
Palate: White wine cask notes, hints of peat
Rating: 6 / 10 – too rushed for good notes but nice pour. Keeping it anyways so I remember.
Nose: Cider, cider. Pear skins.
Palate: Beautiful clean bourbon cask. Carambola. Pear drops. Grapefruit. Honey. Stilton cheese
Rating: 6 / 10 – elegant, tasty but not something I’d chase for the age / price.
Nose: Leeks and potato soup, flash fried pimiento de padrón, portobello and hint of mole spices (cumin, cocoa, red chile powder, and cinnamon), mustiness
Palate: Big thick fruity wine notes, balsamic, stewed prunes, cherry concentrate, leather, coffee grounds, big tannin punch on the finish like chewing on a cinnamon stick
Rating: 8 / 10 – What a freaking wallop. This is shockingly good.
Nose: Mexican hot chocolate, pipe tobacco, puer, cascara
Palate: Slightly salty and umami. The weird sour funk of Umeboshi. Limestone. Potting soil. Black forest cherry cake.
Rating: 7 / 10 – a big complex profound full metal pour. Raise your glass.
Nose: Cinnamon honey stick, warm cinnamon roll, salt sea air, distant neighbors chimney with dry maple
Palate: Sea salt and toffee, chai spices, celery salt
Rating: 6 / 10 – quite nice frankly, but need to try it on a fresh palate.
Nose: Fresh cut grass, cinnamon honey stick, clove cigs.
Palate: Green pepper, cloves.
Rating: 7 / 10 – damn this is great. 133 phenol
Nose: Leather, dark chocolate cherries, dark chocolate sorbet, smokey mesquite briquets
Palate: Leather, warm thick as a spoon smokey dark hot chocolate, even going to cocoa nibs and raw coffee beans. With a dusting of powered chiles. Freeze dried cherries and Turkish apricots. The earthy n oak flavors taper off and menthol & figs.
Rating: 9 / 10 – rich, luxurious, powerful and amazing
Nose: Tums fruit antacids / chalk, cinamon, tangerine juice and dried peel, blue moon with a big orange slice, sundried tomato
Palate: Tangerine all the way, creme brulee, vibrant acidity
Rating: 6 / 10 – huge bold flavors. Super fun.
Nose: Chardonnay grapes, unripe white peaches, honeycomb, cinnamon simple syrup, copper, penny, rye, tonic
Palate: Ginger chews, quinine, white peach tea, grapes
Rating: 6 / 10 – a really simple lovely pour. Nice balance of fruit and spice.
Nose: Cinnamon smoke – like atomic fireballs, burnt ends, I would use this as a basis for an epic sweet smokey salsa to dip fried chicken, chipotle mayo, shrimp head reduction, bandaid
Palate: Way lest smokey than the nose suggests, fire roasted tomatillo salsa, roasted green bell pepper, pine needles, cider vinegar.
Rating: 7 / 10 – I can’t wait to buy this next week. Damn it’s lovely.
Nose: Honey ham, cucumber, melon pear (cucumber)
Palate: Honeydew melon, milk candies, brine, smoked eggplant
Rating: 6 / 10 – a nice sweet smoke, with a good rounded character. Wish it wasn’t watered but still lovely.
Nose: Funk that actually reminds me of springbank funk. Red berries, strawberry fruit leather. Gun powder/fireworks. Capers. Cedar, Menthol / eucalyptus, Vanilla bean.
Palate: Oh that is good. Grilled green bell pepper. Szechuan peppers. Burnt ends. Cedar for days, Cacao / chocolate, Blue diamond chocolate dusted almonds, Mole, Juicy red plum, The spirit of a spicy mexican hot coco, Plums & berries over hand churned, rich vanilla bean ice cream, Dr. Pepper reduction, Cracked pepper on finish
Rating: 9 (Shane) 8 (Ryan) / 10 – frankly on a clean palate, this could be a 10, but too deep into the tasting. This is so excellent.
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