Category: Single Malt

Rating 8/ 10
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Bruichladdich 2012/2023 2nd fill rivesalt 10 Years (nearly 11) 61.4% for FoB

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.

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Bruichladdich 20 Years 2003 Micro Provenance Port Hogshead (2nd Fill) Cask 1293 54.4% for “Mary McGregor”

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.

Rating 6/ 10
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Rhinns 11 Years 2011/2023 59.3% for Svenska Eldvatten

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.

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Littlemill 1992/2015 23 Year 57% for Kierzek-Berlin (KzB)

Nose: Champagne/sherry vinegar, grapefruit, organic Cheerios.

Palate: Mignonette vinegar. Sweet n sour. Stale stick of Juicy fruit gum. Peach gummy rings, packing tape and cardboard.

Rating: 5 / 10 – the most acceptable of the three sister casks, but I’m not looking to lick my way through a major shipping service.

Rating 5/ 10
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Littlemill 1992/2015 23 Year 53.8% for Whiskybroker

Nose: Butterscotch cream frosting, oats, honestly smells like a wort, browned butter, pot de creme, banana

Palate: Hay, buttered popcorn, banana marshmallows, warming spices, cinnamon latte.on the finish something slightly unpleasant. Envelope glue and wet cardboard.

Rating: 4 (Ryan) 5 (Shane) / 10 – it’s pretty solid until the finish… then I wish it would just finish

Rating 4/ 10
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Littlemill 1992/2014 21 Year 52.9% for The Whisky Mercenary

Nose: Perfumy, packing tape, pistachios and cardamom, patchouli, animal crackers, plain meringue – those huge ass ones you get half way through before you realize, that is just way too much sugar, cereal milk

Palate: That first time you have middle eastern or central american treats that use different sugars and flavors… pistachios and cardamom indeed, reminds me of grape nuts. And cedar. Lots of cedar and sandalwood. I feel like I just made out with a hippie.

Rating: 3 (Ryan) 4 (Shane) / 10 – different, but not in a good way

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Aberlour-Glenlivet 1959 Centenary Decanter Bottled 1979 40%

Nose: Honeycomb / beeswax, butterscotch, pumpernickel, dunnage.

Palate: Old paper, licking an envelope, barley sugar, hint of oak

Rating: 6 / 10 – elegant and gentle but has lost a lot of oomph

Rating 6/ 10
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Aberlour 17 Year “Ne Me Quitte Pas” 1990/2008 Cask CO-65 LMDW 52.7%

Nose: Spearmint, lime, redvines

Palate: Lime zest frosting, copper penny, cinnamon, guarapo

Rating: 6 / 10 – a fine vibrant bottle

Rating 6/ 10
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Aberlour 12 Dumpy “Pure Malt” (late 60s – early 80s) 40%

Nose: Strawberry stems, wax paper, machine shop

Palate: Cream toffee, honey nut crunch type cornflakes, waxy

Rating: 6 / 10 – gentle, old school

Rating 6/ 10
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Aberlour 2011/2021 10 Year Ruby Port for Cadenheads 55.7%

Nose: Blackberry, cedar, flat coke

Palate: Blackberry cobbler, pink peppercorn, plums, cranberry jam, sour cola bottles

Rating: 6 / 10 – this is totally my jam at first, but then it dropped a tiny touch. But what a fun mix.

Rating 6/ 10
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Aberlour 1988/2013 25 Years 50.9% for Douglass Laing

Nose: Fresh cut grass, fresh spruce forest, chamomile and honey.

Palate: Catnip, lavender cookies, fresh cracked pepper, honey simple syrup, orange pith

Rating: 6 / 10 – fun and different

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Aberlour 100 Proof 1L 57.1 (blends from 1994-1997)

Nose: Dried dates, coffee beans, plums maraschino cherries.

Palate: Leather and oak hit, espresso coffee bean, luxardo cherries.

Rating: 8 / 10 – this is just exactly what I love from whisky.

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Springbank 18 Year 1996 56.3% for Whiskybroker

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

Rating 6/ 10
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Springbank 19 Year 1996 56.4% for Archives

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

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Unnamed Islay Malt 1992 SV Cask #6768 53.2%

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.