Nose: Sweet peat, cinnamon, dates, dr pepper bbq sauce, espresso.
Palate: Burnt ends, smokey bbq, cold smoked cold drip coffee, coffee caramels, mole
Rating: 7 / 10 – too late into the tasting to nail the score but hot damn this is tasty, makes me wish I picked the peated rather than unpeated when buying my own Raasay chinquapin cask.
Nose: Graham crackers, chocolate cherry fudge, a very sweet jamaica (cinnamon, hibiscus, star of anise)
Palate: Hazelnut, plum leather, actual leather, bright peat
Rating: 7 / 10 – tiny private cask from a few friends (bruce, hughes…). Freaking delicious
Nose: A lovely apple vinegar note. Nutmeg and chestnuts. Light milk chocolate. Managed to be fragrant and rich without being sweet. Crisp and clean apple. You get those subtle more cidery, olive, almond notes. Apple pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, apple chutney, meyer lemon. Hint of manure.
Palate: A class oak spice bouquet. Cocoa powder. Crab apple tartness. Thin and kinda gentle but with a long finish. Leathery and tobacco. Anise. Apple sauce/butter.
Rating: 6 (Ryan) 5 (Shane) / 10 – a perfectly lovely pour that is underpowered for my palate.
Nose: Big dark bomb, cedar, walnuts, wet leather, tobacco leaf, heavily toasted sesame, shoe polish…. This smells like a Moroccan wood and leather shop in an old spice market. They make gorgeous chess and backgammon sets from araar wood that have a unique earthy carrot smell.
Palate: Lemon zest, dark chocolate pepitas, olive oil cake, pipe tobacco
Rating: 8 / 10 – this is absolutely beautiful. I was planning to spit my way through some samples tonight but fuck that. I’m just going to sit with the wee spirit and bask in it. This is my first union and I hope to god it’s an honest example of their cask management. What a win.
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