Nose: Vietnamese cinnamon, rose hips, fresh whipped cream, lovely sherried notes of dark fruits, violet, packing tape, pencil lead
Palate: Those sherried dark fruits poached, cedar, lightly bitter/herbal on the finish
Rating: 6 / 10
Nose: Peanut m&m chocolate coating, honey, wax, light citrus, musky, paint, plantains, vanilla pods, model glue, dried pineapple.
Palate: Subtle pineapple, wax, honey, packing tape, sea salt, mineral water, as it breathes the pete smoke starts to really surface
Rating: 6 / 10
Nose: Lemon pledge dusting spray. Homemade charcoal before lighting the grill. Baking clay. Limestone. Took the kids to a goat farm last week to lean about making cheese and ended up petting an albino donkey for almost an hour. Such a friendly beast. Really lowers the heart rate. He had a warm hay smell.
Palate: So well aligned with the nose. Deep lemoney mineral profile. The fabric bandaids which actually stayed on when surfing. The salty aftertaste of a good session., Sweetness, hints of vanilla and barley candy. Fennel bulb. The smoke is surprisingly gentle.
Rating: 8 / 10 – Incredibly well rounded palate. Elegant, interesting. yummy.
Nose: Lychee, tangerine, sumo oranges up front. Dried turkish apricots. Dried figs and dates. So bright, then an earthen layer. Potting soil and warm bricks. Tobacco leaf. A fussiness that is hinting towards sulfur but tips back from the dark side.
Palate: Big wholoping sherry layer. Prune juice. Leather and tobacco. Carob. Blackberries. Pink peppercorn. Not sulfury like I was afraid of but the sherry has taken over.
Rating: 6 / 10 – I quite enjoy a sherry bomb but feel like we may have lost of some the character I like from the previous 18yo bottlings.
Nose: Buttercream frosting, clementines, lemon, minerality, orange blossom water, packing tape, wax
Palate: Honey, green peppercorns, cornflakes, oily with subtle peat which nicely balances with the fruitiness and sweetness. Slightly astringent towards the end with grassy, barnyard notes.
Rating: 6 / 10 – a simpler Longrow 18 from the initial we tried, but still has a nice balance between fruit, sweet, and peat.
Nose: Anise, barnyard, hay, tangerine, iodine, cedar, incense.
Palate: Buttery, sweet, touch of peat and smoke, lychee, caviar and creme fraiche on a potato chip, muscles with a honey dijon cream, Totino’s pizza rolls, honey on beer bread.
Rating: 7 / 10 – a very well blended and lovely seaside smoke bit
Nose: White peach tea, salty and floral, marsh grass in a warm wind, sourdough starter, warm suede or my leather wallet after sitting on it all day, hay bales, pencil shavings
Palate: Simple, gentle notes of vanilla with kisses of citrus, smoked salt, slightly medicinal or aspirin astringency, peppery, surprisingly peated, envelope, the finish blossoms with honey and white fruit.
Rating: 5 / 10 – a lovely light summer dram
Nose: Grapefruit, papaya seeds, ceylon cinnamon sticks, allspice, banana peel, julie’s orange rolls – with those sweet citrus vibe mixed with a bright yeasty odor. reminds me a ton of paul john on the nose.
Palate: Bright cabinet spices, rooibos tea, guajillo chillies, grapefruit peel, rye crackers, estery glue notes.
Rating: 7 / 10 – lovely young entrant. My first Dornoch and this shows so much promise. At retail, I’d gladly buy one.
Nose: Salted butter, anise seeds, allspice, white pepper, butter cookies, summer marsh grass
Palate: Copper penny, carmel.
Rating: 5 / 10 – a nice nose, and gentle palate
Nose: Green apple, anise seed, saw dust
Palate: Subtle, honeysuckle, werther’s original.
Rating: 6 / 10 – blend of all 2009 dramfool bottlings blair athol 12, Caol Ila 18, Highland park 16, Invergordon 37 bladnoch forum, rosebank 12.
Nose: Raspberry licorice ropes, red currant jam, plum butter.
Palate: Raspberry shortbread, rooibos.
Rating: 6 / 10 – lovely nose. Off the hook. Palate is fun and fruity but not quite as standout.
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: Butterscotch, lemon pith. unripe peaches, grape skin, dried mango, maple bark, white tea
Palate: Tart and dry, aspirin, asparagus, barley cake, furniture spray, old beeswax.
Rating: 4 (Shane) 6 (Ryan) / 10 – It’s such a different style than I am used to drinking. Can’t say I love it, but also could see getting used to it eventually and it growing on me. So this score feels more of how I feel today than a reflection on the spirit.
Nose: Green grapes, bubblegum, pineapple
Palate: Old bandaid, clay, touch medicinal, waxy, mint toothpaste, lightest bit soapy, lightly fruity, honey wax, incense, tape
Rating: 4 (Shane) 5 (Ryan) / 10 – while I love the nose, the palate is kind of off putting
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