Nose: Graham crackers, cedar, white peach tea, vanilla bean, butterscotch
Palate: Red vines, cinnamon bears, vanilla taffy.
Rating: 4 (Ryan) 6 (Shane) / 10 – my teeth tingle, everything being turned up to 11. But the flavors are solid.
Nose: Pickling spices, slightly turned tropical fruit, toasted coconut, pan fried banana
Palate: A muddled gentle generic rum punch. A bit astringent on the finish. An ephemeral sweetness without any striking notes.
Rating: 5 / 10 – frankly kind of disappointing. Fine but nothing special. I did get a chance to try the full proof version at whisky live Paris later and its night and day.
Nose: Leather, molasses, balsamic reduction, nutty, prunes and dates, brown sugar oatmeal, carrot greens
Palate: Coffee grounds, cherry vinegar, cola cubes, licorice root, rootbeer, veers towards herbal on the finish
Rating: 7 (Shane) 6 (Ryan) / 10 – Love me a good PX bomb
Nose: Fresh cut maple, toasted pecans, pralines and cream, dry hay bale, creme de violette, wool sweater, welchs grape juice, white tangerine.
Palate: Buttery, farm funk, vanilla bean, sponge cake, mint pillows
Rating: 6 (Ryan) 7 (Shane) / 10 – really rich and lovely palate with a hint of funk
Nose: Chardonnay grapes, unripe white peaches, honeycomb, cinnamon simple syrup, copper, penny, rye, tonic
Palate: Ginger chews, quinine, white peach tea, grapes
Rating: 6 / 10 – a really simple lovely pour. Nice balance of fruit and spice.
Nose: Amaretto, almond, dates.
Palate: Really pleasant sweetness, chai tea
Rating: 5 (Ryan) 6 (Shane) / 10 – feeling terse today.
Nose: Kung pow chicken, big wood, Mexican dark chocolate
Palate: Dark chocolate and cinnamon, oak for days, chili, dutch salted black licorice
Rating: 7 (Shane) 5 (Ryan) / 10 – this is quite intense. It works this late in a tasting. Wonder if I’d like it this much on a fresh palate.
Nose: Homemade fruit leather, bright tannins. Tomatoes on the vine, talcum powder. Oiled brown paper.
Palate: Cherry pot brownies. copper penny. salted cod, dusty wood
Rating: 7 / 10 – what a transformation from last years cask sample. This has a nice deep flavor profile.
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