Nose: Fruity and floral, violets.
Palate: Violets, cedar, maybe sandalwood, sheep’s milk cheese, banyard, dried apricots, copious amounts of sage
Rating: 5 (shane) 6 (ryan) / 10 – this is so weird and uncomfortable.
Nose: Watermelon jolly rancher, squishy ripe figs, black currants, big league chew bubblegum, cotton candy.
Palate: Graham crackers, cheap grenadine supermarket syrup
Rating: 4 / 10 – the very definition of a px veneer. You can’t fix a terrible cask with a quick coat of paint.
Nose: Sweetness, graham crackers, celery salt
Palate: Christmas tea, allspice, grosielle, fennel
Rating: 4 (Ryan) 5 (Shane) / 10
Nose: Salt water taffy, brittle, ballpark roasted peanuts, okra, fennel fronds when out on the trail. Tiny hint of a bakery vibe. Tamales. Meringue. Violets. Aloe Vera
Palate: Hoppy, old coffee grounds, copper penny metallicness, peach ring candy, bee pollen. earthy
Rating: 6 / 10 – I’m delighted how much of my tongue gets invited to the mouth party. Remarkably well balanced and dynamic.
Nose: Plum butter, australian red vines, passion flower. Nose is lovely.
Palate: Pu’er, died date nuggets, colo-cao, teeny bit of chlorine
Rating: 4 / 10 – its fine but not for this price
Nose: Oak, with layer of oak on the oak, a underlayer of menthol, green grass, medical gauze
Palate: Big brown sugar hug, big oak, leather, a lick of menthol on the finish.
Rating: 6 / 10 – a delightful full bodied sipper, well rounded, big flavors, low proof. This would be the perfect concentrate in my banana bread. Sadly it is just one wooden big stiffie. I like a touch of character along with my wood.
Nose: Strong floral and mountain pine needle notes – potpourri, white peach, ripe apricots, kumquat, a hint of farm funk – like hugging a sheep in the sun, with slightly astringent pine cleaner note.
Palate: A lovely light peach fragrance, even peach gummy on the long finish, with hints of warm spices. Incredibly balanced between fruit and wood. The pine / astringent note is present. This is delicious but that astringence is quite strange.
Rating: 5 / 10 – What a strange set of conflicts. The fruitiness is amazing. The astringence bizarre. I don’t know what to do with this.
Nose: Smores, bottom of the tray of burnt ends, Kouign-amann.
Palate: Floral, tart cherrie tart. Ryan gets subtle sour note on the finish but I do not. I love the mouthfeel
Rating: 5 / 10
Nose: Sultanas and sweet moments with a chalky vibe
Palate: Sweet sherry notes, dried cherries, licorice stick, unctuous palate and super long finish, tobacco leaves
Rating: 7 / 10 – I don’t get the peat at all, but it’s tasty. Doubt I’d ever pay macallan prices for it but it’s good.
Nose: Sniffs like an aquavit, fennel, green peppercorn, tail end is dill
Palate: Fennel for days, weisswurst sausage which are mild with a strong parsley vibe, dirt and green peppercorn, trails off into pretty intense levels of beet
Rating: 5 / 10
Nose: Quite lovely. Bright citrus notes, pineapple and grilled lemons. A Petit-suisse with a big spoonful of loquat marmalade. Grilled leeks and a strong garden vibe, almost ferns. Sojourn is obsessed with all things Jurassic and is now on the hunt for the world’s oldest plant. Time to take him to the botanical garden again. Under the sweet smoke, salt crinkles my nose, nearly iodine.
Palate: True to the nose. The taste in my mouth when I’m spinning clay pottery. Yuzu gummy candies. Grapefruit peel and a lick of ginger. A mild green tea with a tiny dollop of lemon and honey. The smoke layers gracefully. This would make a hell of a tea.
Rating: 7 / 10 – I am no yamazaki fan boy. I’ve had a number of the older expressions when I used to travel to Japan for work and they were lovely but I would gladly have picked an older hibiki or springbank or bourbon for the money. So, when I say this nose is off the charts, I am certainly not swayed by any mystique. Lovely.
Nose: White peaches, wax cleaner, tangerine, lightly grassy, whiffs of mint, biscotti, malty and fresh bread.
Palate: Nails the nose, with a nice tart note to balance the sweetness. Lemon drop, white tea, candied ginger, pepper and rose petals. A slight butteriness on the lips.
Rating: 7 / 10 – this is beautiful in its simplicity and balance. It doesn’t have crazy depth or flavor profile, but it absolutely shines in what it does here and the pairing between nose and palate. This drinks like a classic Clynelish whisky.
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