Nose: Blackberry, cedar, flat coke
Palate: Blackberry cobbler, pink peppercorn, plums, cranberry jam, sour cola bottles
Rating: 6 / 10 – this is totally my jam at first, but then it dropped a tiny touch. But what a fun mix.
Nose: Charcoal filters, pool water, condensed milk or werthers original, dandelion, blue corn, bird of paradise flowers (had them in my yard growing up), quite peated
Palate: Rubber bands, resin / pine and garden herbs, dried coconut flakes that have gone slightly stale.
Rating: 4 / 10 – For all the love that Springbank gets, it’s got no shortage of misses. They are hard enough to get these days that people don’t open the bottle or they over appreciate the liquid just do to the effort involved. This is no winner.
Nose: Grapefruit, rum cake.
Palate: Black tea, cardamom, grapefruit peel, puer tea.
Rating: 7 / 10 – much much better. Longrow really works with a lick of sweetness.
Nose: Cheez it, cheddar popcorn, hoisin, flavacol, jasmine, sweet buttered cornbread with smoked honey and sea salt, dry moss, vanilla.
Palate: I love you sweaty pete. I mean … I love you sweet peat. Two hit wonder … big honey comb and a tarry salty smoke. Endive.
Rating: 6 / 10 – Simple and delightful one two punch of sweet peat
Nose: Apricot, smoke
Palate: Raw kale, charcoal, iodine and bandaids.
Rating: 4 (Ryan) 5 (Shane) / 10
Nose: Angel food cake and fresh whipped cream. Madagascar vanilla beans. Oats and grass. Stone fruit. Tangerine flan. Crisp green apples. Wildflower honey. Beeswax candles. Rambutan. Creme de violette.
Palate: . Marijuana and hops on the first sip 😀 Hey pssstt…. You want some weed? Chronic? Skunk? Schwag. Then layer in poached pears. Tangerine slices. Wood backbone buried in a sweetness, blueberry white tea. I want more oomph. Honeysuckle, with a high soprano sweet note. Powdered sugar.
Rating: 6 (Shane) 7 (Ryan) / 10 – an ode to sweeties. Powdered sugar high.
Nose: Freshly baked banana bread, sweet plantains, subtle hints of peaches and apricots jam. Warm butter. A tannin vibe that makes my nose wrinkle.
Palate: This was definitely a dry sherry, on the red wine spectrum. I would have guessed a rioja cask. Drying on the palate with strong tannins. A good lick of oak. Sour red plums.
Rating: 3 (Ryan) 5 (Shane) / 10 – “this is awful” come on Cadenheads, you can do better than this. Ryan didn’t want to swallow, but he is a good boy. He’s overreacting but I’ll admit, this is only alright.
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.
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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