Nose: Yellow peaches, cantaloupe, kumquat.
Palate: Orange blossom honey, anise seed, flinstone’s vitamin chews, elderflower
Rating: 7 / 10 – this is just beautiful
Nose: Sweet hickory smoke, incents
Palate: Juicy fruit, smoke, braggs aminos
Rating: 7 / 10 – simple sweet and fun
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: Smoked ham and cheese hot pockets, smoked caviar, meringue, wood smoked eggplant, fresh chopped chives.
Palate: Roasted peppers (bell & poblano), okra, browned butter, pan roasted spam, braggs amino acids. grilled and smoked head of lettuce with crisped anchovies. Freeze dried strawberries and a drizzle of sweet cream with sea salt
Rating: 6 (Ryan) 7 (Shane) / 10 – OH YUM YUM. This is great.
Nose: Prosciutto wrapped around cantaloupe, cedar chips, cotton candy, rose hips, orange peel, the tiniest brush of cloves, almost cola vibe
Palate: Bunch of peat well integrated with the other flavors, surprising for an older cask. The combo of barrels does wonders here. Very blackberry/raspberry, licorice. Wool socks. [Ryan]: Damn, I don’t tend to love the more heavily smoked, peaty side of the spectrum these days, but this is delicious.
Rating: 6 / 10 – when compared to the pure bourbon sister cask, it comes short, but on its own, a very nice pour.
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: Yummm, more elegant and well rounded nose than its previous sister cask. Fruity, plums, apricots. Banana boat sunscreen, clarified butter, pretty sweet.
Palate: Big raisin love, super ripe purple plums, banana leaf wrapped pork tamales in campfire
Rating: 7 / 10 – sweet smokey fruity deliciousness
Nose: Barnyard funk, touch of sulfur, hints of prime rib, sweet treats, lot of delightful things here dancing around on the nose. Maple candies. Frosting.
Palate: Chocolate, leather, heather, smoke, vanilla salt water taffy, salted cod.
Rating: 5 (Shane) 6 (Ryan) / 10
Nose: Plain milk chocolate m&m’s, snack pack chocolate pudding cups, stale vanilla wafers you pick up at the costa rican gas station on the way to a company meeting… nearly a tradition. Graham crackers / circus animals, werther’s originals, tangerine flan with a well balanced layer of smoke.
Palate: Tangerine cut in half and plopped on the grill with a sprig of rosemary. Grapefruit peel. Wildflower honey. Sour grass.
Rating: 5 (Ryan) 7 (Shane) / 10 – a fun mix but surprised too
Nose: Salted fruit bomb. Ripe yellow nectarines. Coriander and toasted cumin. Honeycomb and pollen. I love the springbank DNA with the waxy fruit influence. Like Clynelish and springbank had a love child. Boston fruit slices. Raspberries and Blackberries gummy candied. Scotch tape. A pair of wool socks. Grilled cheese animal style from in-n-out.
Palate: Toasted peach with a hint of sea salt and basil, corrugated cardboard, endive with grapefruit supremes.
Rating: 4 (Ryan) 6 (Shane) / 10 – I love the contrasts of the nose. Springbank is rarely quite so fruity. And while Ryan is rarely enamored by the tart side of life (sounds like a personal problem to me), I greatly enjoy it. Who doesn’t like a bit of zest?!?
Nose: Cinnamon honey sticks, tangerine white tea, soft peppermint candy. I used to climb on the giant hay bales at the farm next to my grandparents, as they dried.Touch of steel cut oats.
Palate: Cloves and peppermint oil. homemade roasted & dried seaweed snack. Jasmine green tea.
Rating: 8 / 10 – I just love this profile. BBQ full forward. Bit more herbal than some but well within my tolerance level.
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