Nose: Uncuous, southern bbq, dates, prunes, figs
Palate: Pure sherry bomb. Grenadine, subtle meatiness, dried prunes.
Rating: 8 / 10 – 50 shades of glendronach.
Nose: Classic bourbon cask. animal crackers, vanilla pudding, light anise vibes.
Palate: A bright sweetness. Pot de creme, hints of caramel, grapefruit peel.
Rating: 5 / 10 – delicate finely balanced bourbon matured laddie. yawn.
Nose: Homemade fruit leather, bright tannins. Tomatoes on the vine, talcum powder. Oiled brown paper.
Palate: Cherry pot brownies. copper penny. salted cod, dusty wood
Rating: 7 / 10 – what a transformation from last years cask sample. This has a nice deep flavor profile.
Nose: Tangerine, smoked salt, juicy fruit gum.
Palate: Sumo orange, very gentle peat notes, miel de caña
Rating: 6 / 10 – an unusually elegant port charlotte. Cleaner than some of its kin.
Nose: Vanilla icecream, green apple peel, grilled pineapple, kettle corn
Palate: Sweet toasted corn with brown sugar and smoked butter, hint of iodine and big smoke.
Rating: 7 / 10 a raucous good time. Elegant nose with a big palate.
Nose: Grilled leeks, bergamot, dark bread fruit nut loaf, cinnamon / nutmeg
Palate: Cinnamon sticks, marzipan, citrus white tea, bay leaf and bbw smoke
Rating: 7 / 10 unbelievably soft for an Octomore .. or it’s my 5th dram.
Nose: I’ve been somewhat obsessed with sweet spicy salsas. My neighborhood burrito shop chef has been trying all kinds of things. A tamarindo habanero (win). A smokey tropical guava with earthy notes, perhaps guajillo? I’ve been wondering if there is some way to bring in a leather / tobacco / cedar vibe into his next experiment. This almost tiptoes into rancio, with a dollop of blue cheese.
Palate: Dirty peat alert. Cast iron pan burnt bits. Charred green bell pepper Crispy baked broccoli. Over steeped green tea, nearly metallic. And yet among all these astringent flavors is a sweet hug.
Rating: 7 / 10 you know this is good when I spilled my glass, and decided to lick it off the table. =)
Nose: Capri-sun orange juice. Guava and unripe banana. Marsh grass. Clove butter, almost flambee.
Palate: Tony Chocolonely salted caramel milk chocolate. Dark chocolate orange. Bitter almonds. A dark heavy german bread loaf. The kind which are actually edible bricks slicked as cracker alternatives.
Rating: 4 / 10 – okay, better than the 1988 but still no bueno. Maybe I’m missing something.
Nose: Tangerine, subtle fleeting note of violet, meyer lemons, guava, essence of grapefruit, rose hip tea
Palate: Milk chocolate, grapefruit and lemon peel, perfume and cheap hair spray, that note of old wood again. Slightly bitter and herbal on the finish.
Rating: 5 / 10 – coming off the Hart Brother’s sherry cask samples, the core dna that is Littlemill is present here. Hats off to them for capturing that with the addition of the sherry cask at play. We are just finding that maybe we don’t love Littlemill, but we have more samples to try and will report back.
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