Nose: Smoked oysters with blackberry vinegar, burnt ends, dark cherry
Palate: Smokey salted pecans, dried raspberries, tobacco leaf, dates
Rating: 7 / 10 – for a core line bottle this is really excellent
Nose: cantaloupe, fig newton, ginger miso fried noodles, pickled hearing or anchovies, pencil shavings, sidenote, its harsh on the nose on the initial pour but after 5 minutes calms down and becomes jammy
Palate: We’ve been cooking for each other in my spanish class. Dishes from home. Julie made chocolate cake. Lisa who sits next to her made a russian salad with mashed potatoes, sweet beets, stewed onions and pickled herring. It was gloriously weird and I couldn’t decide if I loved it or hated it, but it 100% was not boring. Like this pour. The lead vibe. The braggs’ amino acids and black tea kombucha concentrate. Chewing on violets. Chicory – not quite coffee, not quite chocolate, just wishes it were both. It both bitter and it offers a sweet, woody, and intense flavor profile reminiscent of nutty, fire-toasted marshmallows with a strong,, dark, and molasses-like finish.
Rating: 5 (Ryan) 6 (Shane) / 10 – Ryan would only accept a pour from me, but not from you or anyone else. And only from me through peer pressure. I on the other hand wish ryan would gift me his bottle, because I wouldn’t pay for one, but I’d gladly drink it.
Nose: Cloves, tobacco, leather, dark chocolate
Palate: Dates, leather, tobacco leaf, rootbeer, walnut, figs
Rating: 8 / 10 – what a well rounded and delicious pour
Nose: Prune juice, dates, vanilla bean, sulfur
Palate: Black tea, chocolate and tobacco… and sulfur. Too much for me.missing a touch of sweetness.
Rating: 5 (Ryan) 3 (Shane) / 10 – this is a pretty solid cask if it wasn’t for the sulfur
Nose: Orange clove pomander ball, crab apples, brown sugar, ripe melon, basque cake, hint of wet bamboo
Palate: Tangerine peel wildflower honey hot toddy, cloves and cinnamon, lovely high notes
Rating: 7 / 10 – one epic beautiful note. What it lacks in depth, it nails acapella.
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: Dr pepper, black peppercorn, Kookaburra black licorice, almond extract and Disaronno liquor, alfalfa and fresh straw
Palate: Blackberry and plum crumble. Dark chocolate. Organic rooibos. A strong lick of wood that layers in well with the syrupy sweetness. Layered in with an herbal kick. Like getting a digestif here in the canaries, where they put herbs into spirits and roll their own.
Rating: 6 / 10 – a completely lovely oloroso expression
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: Chocolate covered espresso bean, tobacco leaf
Palate: Grapefruit peel, red wine vinegar, ginger, peach and black tea
Rating: 6 / 10 – fun and complex. But brighter than I wanted.
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: Sherry vinegar, apples, nice subtle sherried notes of dates and figs
Palate: Fig vinegar, dark soil, cecina, sour grass
Rating: 6 / 10 – a nice sour balanced with oloroso
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.
Nose: Uncuous, southern bbq, dates, prunes, figs
Palate: Pure sherry bomb. Grenadine, subtle meatiness, dried prunes.
Rating: 8 / 10 – 50 shades of glendronach.
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