Nose: Brie cheese, black tea, graham crackers, apricots, rhubarb, black pepper pan sauce
Palate: Black pepper, sichuan pepper burn, tape, black tea, ube and boba tea, sweet bean buns, roasted turnips, cedar
Rating: 6 / 10
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
Nose: Subtle apricot, honey, tangerine, sweet cream
Palate: Licorice root, honeydew melon, cucumber in sweet brine, lemon peel, white peach tea, sugar cookie
Rating: 6 / 10 – pleasant, but don’t totally recognize the Brora character
Nose: Burn, sawdust, butter sauteed pears, kumquat, cut grass.
Palate: Unripe nectarines, kumquats, raw almonds, fun bitters, comes on hot hot hot.
Rating: 5 / 10 – a meh nose but a fun fruity sour palate.
Nose: Lemon poppyseed muffins, bandaids and iodine, can of freshly opened tennis balls, fudge, light whiffs of pine/juniper, pencils, orange blossom water, good ‘n plenty
Palate: Fatty, creamy, vanilla, orange blossom water, white peach tea, loveliest note of peat that adds complexity and body
Rating: 8 (Ryan) 7 (Shane) / 10 – this is a beautiful Springbank, well done IAAS!
Nose: Sherried bubble gum, wet oats, chocolate bitters, dried goji berries / cranberries, unsweetened strawberry fruit leather, cascara, hints of luxardo cherries
Palate: Sherried bubble gum, tannic and very very strong wood, chocolate, that finish is quite bitter and woody
Rating: 5 / 10 – the nose is lovely, the palate is great but the dominance of the wood takes this from being great to ok.
Nose: Stick of faded juicy fruit chewing gum. Peach tea. Allspice, which is a ridiculous pain in the ass to grind. I don’t think most people know how big those suckers are. I actually had no idea they were a dried pepper tree fruit until I moved to Spain where they call them Jamaican pepper. As it sits and breathes, a bit of red fruit goodness surfaces.
Palate: Oh. What a pairing. I have a secret soft spot from my time living in the middle east for the smell of flavored tobacco. Sitting in the roadside stands in 45c heat, sipping sweet mint tea and playing backgammon while people took turns sharing a pipe of fruit flavored tobacco just carries the flair of youthful adventure. Strawberry fruit leather. Dark chocolate. Mexican ancho or guajillo chillies, something with an earthy flair. Cabinet spices and pink peppercorn.
Rating: 9 / 10 – the palate is so balanced and rich. Just keeps giving. This is one of the best pours I’ve had year to date. Freaking hat trick.
Nose: Brown sugar, stone fruit, monkey bread, Kouign-amann, cloves.
Palate: Red vines, cloves, full on juicy fruit sweetness but the finish has a slight Asprin note that detracts from the moment.
Rating: 6 / 10
Nose: Fig jam, dates, stewed prunes, pink peppercorn, teriyaki sauce, almonds, vanilla bean wafers
Palate: Soft prunes, luden’s wild cherry lozenges, tobacco leaf, salted licorice, sweet chili biltong, the teriyaki umami factor nicely tampers down the sweet
Rating: 8 / 10 – from beginning to end, everything is aligned and consistent, a truly lovely experience. God we’ve missed you Glendronach ‘93!
Nose: Whole grain dijon, warm sidewalk, Santa Ana winds in LA, dry hay and dandelions, lemon oil.
Palate: Cold smoked meats. I can almost taste barley. This is lovely. Hint of brine on a well- basted turkey slice. Chamomile with a twist of lemon zest. Green peppercorn. A quiet mineral note.
Rating: 8 / 10 – this is such a nice sipper. It was a gifted sample and had it blind. I guessed springbank. This is an unusually balanced longrow, and what a nice sipper it is. A bottle meant to enjoy.
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