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: Kale chips, or perhaps rainbow chard blanched for 5 seconds. Dry pine leaves with a sprinkling of resin. Mom’s blueberry bushes. They smell so enticing as the summer progresses. And yet for all the health inducing vegetal notes, a layer of dense fruit concentrate. Like reduced plum butter with a splash of red wine. The oak props this up
Palate: Oh that is … bitter? Sour? Tannic? Mouth cringingly tart. Even for me, and I love that element lately, it’s too much. But it passes and the dark stone fruits punch through while saliva cascades from my mouth like a Saint Bernard puppy happy to see you. Damn so juicy. Dusting of pie spices.
Rating: 4 / 10 – this has a lot of promise, but is a bit too hard to drink at the moment. Let’s round out the profile without losing the concentrated goodness or going any further down the herbal route.
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