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: 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: I have a soft spot for lightly scented candles. Especially the 99c ones with the exaggerated wailing saints on them sold in the hispanic section of the supermarket. Dust, wax, cinnamon and cloves. The slightly floral earth vibe of Rooibos. Apple peels. Julie recently bought me a cedar deodorant. Awesome smell but dang it’s rough to apply. And a savory note, leek quiche, especially the crust.
Palate: That is not what I expected. It might be one of the strangest and enticing palates in a while. Like fruit umami. Apples flash fried in salted browned butter, with a lightly caramelized edge. In elementary school I used to visit Eddie Fei’s house and his family had the most enticing and unusual snacks. I can just barely remember these spiced and candied mandarine peels and wish I could find the recipe. Some kind of spicy intensity like Sichuan peppercorns, cumin and fennel seeds. Still no luck figuring it out. And something a touch earthy- like crisped sage. Our old housemate Diego used to burn it to cleanse the kitchen from the evil spirits of my failed attempts at experimental cooking. On a revisit, there is some kind tart fruit note – a cassis kombucha.
Rating: 6 / 10 – I have literally no idea how to rate this. I’m kind of delighted and uncomfortable. Like any great adventure. And while I’d gladly drink this, and share it with friends, I can’t decide if I’d want a bottle.
Nose: Wintergreen lifesavers, haribo gummybears, hazelnut, orange peel, prune juice, diesel fumes.
Palate: Strong wood forward tannins, slightly herbal, overaged/steeped black tea, orange peel, anise/clove.
Rating: 6 / 10 – it’s like a cognac or guyana on steroids. While I like all the notes (even the herbal) it’s just turned up too loud and I’m overwhelmed.
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
Nose: Spearmint, lime, redvines
Palate: Lime zest frosting, copper penny, cinnamon, guarapo
Rating: 6 / 10 – a fine vibrant bottle
Nose: Strawberry stems, wax paper, machine shop
Palate: Cream toffee, honey nut crunch type cornflakes, waxy
Rating: 6 / 10 – gentle, old school
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.
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
Nose: Molasses, fig vinegar, something you should drizzle as a glaze on meat.
Palate: Fennel, cedar, quite methylated / herbal.
Rating: 4 (Shane) 6 (Ryan) / 10 – I see why Ryan likes this. It’s elegant, nuanced. It was just a bit too ricola for me.
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: 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.
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