Nose: Vanilla custard, lemon, clove, grape skins
Palate: Vanilla wafers, oatmeal cookie, daisies. mild bourbon notes
Rating: 5 / 10 – a completely pleasant note. No objections, but nothing particularly special.
Nose: Dulce de leche, de la rosa mazapan, candy corn. Given those you would think this is crazy sweet, but that isn’t really it. There is a light peanutiness.
Palate: Oh wow that is tasty. And yes peanuts garapiñados. Oh it really does match the nose. Sweet velvety butter cream cupcakes, creme brulee, packing tape, powdered sugar. The finish has a slightly tannic feel to it. Like grape skins and white tea.
Rating: 6 / 10 – this is better than I remember it. It’s just yum. Revisited a month later. I like it a lot but am a touch less wowed today. A good drinker but felt less complex on revisit. Lowered from 7 to 6.
Nose: Tutti fruiti, orange mango creamsicle popsicle, grilled pineapple, loads of bananas, acetone / model glue, large rain barrel plastic, cedar
Palate: A juicy fruit explosion. The initial creamy sweetness on the front of the palate is absolutely delightful. A hint of number two pencil, yellow paint and graphite. Hints of garden notes tiptoing to curry notes with water. As the palate evolves a nice wallop of well integrated wood comes into play.
Rating: 9 / 10 – massive estery fruit insanity. This is just over the top. I’m really impressed how they managed to push the boundaries and yet make it so damn fun and delicious.
Nose: Overripe figs, dirty old bandaid, super sweet dark grapes, fig newton, welch’s grape jam on rye, musty
Palate: Jolly rancher grape candy, and then ouch ouch ouch. Sour woody yuck. Sucking on aspirin. I know I should write more but I ain’t got it in me.
Rating: 5 (Ryan) 4 (Shane) / 10 – the first two thirds of the sip is great but then that finish… so close but nope.
Nose: Kettle corn, peanut brittle, salted caramel taffy, roasted red bellpeppers reminding me of a sweet tomato pepper chutney, slight leather
Palate: Leather, pipe tobacco, affogato, mesquite, hard caramel with a bitter twist.
Rating: 7 / 10 – beautiful earthy sweat smokey flavors.
Nose: Seagrass, like walking in the tidal fields at mont saint michel. Ripe honeydew melon. Unripe dates. Touch of bandaid. Tangerine marmalade on burnt toast. Quite fruity for a springbank. Sweet chilaquiles with a sprinkling of cotija.
Palate: That is a lot of sherry influence with a dry dry finish. Tamarind. Which is the world’s nastiest … nut? Fruit? Not even sure what it is. Fermented melon, once it’s gone over ripe. Peppery, somewhere between rocket and endives.
Rating: 4 / 10 – this is the worst springbank 12 cs I’ve had.
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: 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: Acai tea, milk nose funk, sour milk
Palate: Wood tannin, vague cherry pitts, pears
Rating: 4 / 10 – a very mild easy sipper. Completely ambivalent.
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: I’ve been somewhat obsessed with sweet spicy salsas. My neighborhood burrito shop chef has been trying all kinds of things. A tamarindo habanero (win). A smokey tropical guava with earthy notes, perhaps guajillo? I’ve been wondering if there is some way to bring in a leather / tobacco / cedar vibe into his next experiment. This almost tiptoes into rancio, with a dollop of blue cheese.
Palate: Dirty peat alert. Cast iron pan burnt bits. Charred green bell pepper Crispy baked broccoli. Over steeped green tea, nearly metallic. And yet among all these astringent flavors is a sweet hug.
Rating: 7 / 10 you know this is good when I spilled my glass, and decided to lick it off the table. =)
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