Tasting Notes by Brand: L’Encantada

Rating 6/ 10
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L’encantada Pouy 1998/2024 Cask Sample #83

Nose: A cinnamon diesel explosion. Nutmeg. Cedar planks in the oven. Turned pineapple and mango gone the way of fermentation. Pencil shavings.

Palate: Rubber. Yellow peaches and canned lychee juice. I remember the first time they made me a retainer. A bubblegum flavored goop was put into a mold and pushed into my mouth. Don’t move or we will have to do this again, she said after the second failed attempt. I can still taste it 31 years later. The diesel note really pops in the finish.

Rating: 6 / 10 – Definitely going to appeal to the rum crowd.

Rating 5/ 10
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L’Encantada Artigaux 2015 #57 (Uniblanc – heavy char) 55%

Nose: Snapple peach tea and hello alcohol! Old school McDonald’s Baked Peach Pie dessert. Fresh Madagascar vanilla beans. Sticky fig and date pudding. Sugary syrup in fruit cocktail. Jordan almonds. Biscoff cookie, caramel, coconut marshmallows.

Palate: Fleeting initial note of the cheeky peachy and then goes more tannic and dry like oversteeped black tea and oak. Palate is thin and missing heft, not a lot going on here. I don’t agree with ryan. Carmeley. Tasted anise treats.

Rating: 4 (Ryan) 5 (Shane) / 10

Rating 4/ 10
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L’Encantada Domaine Du Pin 2009 / Dec 2022 Cask #18 ?ABV

Nose: Kale chips, or perhaps rainbow chard blanched for 5 seconds. Dry pine leaves with a sprinkling of resin. Mom’s blueberry bushes. They smell so enticing as the summer progresses. And yet for all the health inducing vegetal notes, a layer of dense fruit concentrate. Like reduced plum butter with a splash of red wine. The oak props this up

Palate: Oh that is … bitter? Sour? Tannic? Mouth cringingly tart. Even for me, and I love that element lately, it’s too much. But it passes and the dark stone fruits punch through while saliva cascades from my mouth like a Saint Bernard puppy happy to see you. Damn so juicy. Dusting of pie spices.

Rating: 4 / 10 – this has a lot of promise, but is a bit too hard to drink at the moment. Let’s round out the profile without losing the concentrated goodness or going any further down the herbal route.