Nose: Prune juice, dates, vanilla bean, sulfur
Palate: Black tea, chocolate and tobacco… and sulfur. Too much for me.missing a touch of sweetness.
Rating: 5 (Ryan) 3 (Shane) / 10 – this is a pretty solid cask if it wasn’t for the sulfur
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: Christmas fruitcake. Which for whatever reason I haven’t dove into yet this year. I love those things, and need to get my act together. Nutmeg and cloves. Date nuggets. Noooo .. raisin nut bran. Those little nut covered raisins had such a distinctive profile. And while I like all the notes, the smell feels forced. Which is a bit unusual for Dunsville for me. There is a notable young base smell.
Palate: Yeaaah… the nose called it. Burney on the approach. A fun bran vibe. Good rich fruit notes – unripe figs, medjool dates. Brings me to Turkish sweets which isn’t necessarily a PC but more PX note? A bigger sip rounds it out. I’d write more but Julie calls. There is a bitter underlayer, somewhat abrasive, that fights with the sweetness.
Rating: 5 / 10 – a fine pour, but was expecting more. Maybe I’ll try again another night with more time
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: Banana bread, wet hay and sweet oats.
Palate: Hotness, makes me want to lick my own eyeball, fresh ground cinnamon, leather and earth tones, pepper. Super tannic.
Rating: 4 / 10
Nose: Spearmint lifesaver. Briney. Leather. Nutmeg. Meringue. Burning Incense.
Palate: Also intensely woody which presents as tartness. Packing tape. Briney oysters, and an oily industrial note that I can’t quite put my finger on. Cough syrup aftertaste. Oversteeped black tea and grapefruit peel.
Rating: 5 (Ryan) 6 (Shane) / 10
Nose: Lemon peel, pepper, pine resin, spice box, baby bell with the wax, violets
Palate: Banana saltwater taffy, touch of caramel, overripe cantaloupe, manchego, lemon verbena tea, band-aids
Rating: 5 / 10 – a perfectly pleasant young laddie, but the slightly pine vibe isn’t bad but is an unusual note.
Nose: Brittle without the peanuts, that intense pine note is still quite present, egg salad, raw cedar, nice touch of the rivesaltes.
Palate: Big wood, dried cranberries, white isn’t not necessarily rubber sulfury, I flinched. Veers more vegetal towards the finish.
Rating: 3 (Shane) 4 (Ryan) / 10 – kinda gave me whiplash. ouch.
Nose: Sugar cookies, poached pears, licorice stick, wintergreen life savers – the one they gave you in space camp to chew under the stars and so them spark, oily, packing tape, burnt brown sugar, fresh made caesar salad dressing.
Palate: Wood 2×6 to the face, smoked honey, biltong, deep brooding fresh cinnamon, yummy.
Rating: 5 (Ryan) 7 (Shane) / 10 – Rich smokey BBQ awesomeness.
Nose: Dr pepper, black peppercorn, Kookaburra black licorice, almond extract and Disaronno liquor, alfalfa and fresh straw
Palate: Blackberry and plum crumble. Dark chocolate. Organic rooibos. A strong lick of wood that layers in well with the syrupy sweetness. Layered in with an herbal kick. Like getting a digestif here in the canaries, where they put herbs into spirits and roll their own.
Rating: 6 / 10 – a completely lovely oloroso expression
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: 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.
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