Nose: Carraway, rye chocolate notes.
Palate: Grapeseed oil, licorice root, pepper, chard, mustard plant
Rating: 4 / 10 – fun to try but too garden for me
Nose: Packing tape. Really don’t like this nose but going to tuck in. I used to avoid brimstone like the plague when I started into balcones, but after years of inlay whisky, I’m going to give it another try.
Palate: Licking envelopes, strong wood, slightly bitter and tannic, very little smoke here as compared to the OG version
Rating: 3 (Shane) 4 (Ryan) / 10 – and nope. Still don’t like it. So far away from the 10th anniversary or the sherry cask one that Chip gave Ryan.
Nose: Fig sap, grassy, lemon grass, honey, that nice little sour note from a bourbon barrel, camphor.
Palate: In line with the nose, ends on the sour grassy oaky note, bell peppers.
Rating: 5 / 10 – want to love it more than we do, but it doesn’t stand out, meh. I used to love this bottle… but palates change with time.
Nose: Raspberries and strawberries, super light notes of tarragon and dill, juicy fruit gum, creme de violet
Palate: Cedar and sandalwood, the subtle violet note.
Rating: 6 (Ryan) 7 (Shane) / 10
Nose: Vanilla wafer cookies, oatmeal, oak.. Pretty simple nose
Palate: Oak, wet cardboard, dampness / mossy old house wall, mulch, peach, vanilla threefold.
Rating: 4 / 10 – a fun and mild first attempt from a new distillery
Nose: Brilliant and pure essence of all the apples, gorgeous. The depth and breadth of the apple essence is such that I can taste and feel the texture of an apple slice in my mouth. Dried apple rings, with the tiniest dusting of cinnamon. Apple turnover. Raspberry leaves. Moss growing on apple bark? , elegant sweetness that isn’t cloying or cheap.
Palate: Pink peppercorn, green chillies, crab apple, tarragon.
Rating: 7 (Ryan) 6 (Shane) / 10 – amazing nose, palate a bit too sharp for me. Ryan: I can’t recall having had such a beautiful and pure expression that gets to the heart of what makes apples such a delightful and beautiful fruit in eau de vie until this.
Nose: Apricot stone, Loquat, Grapefruit peel, peach black tea. Wow, way different from Rochelt’s Quince. Nice kinda citrusy pop here. Creamy.
Palate: Dusty white pepper, an overstepped white citrus tea that had ice cubes which then overwatered it., tart note I can’t place, licking an envelope
Rating: 6 (Ryan) 5 (Shane) / 10 – one of the most amazing noses, but palate is both thin and sharp.
Nose: I didn’t expect the first draw to take me to childhood. We had a California pepper tree on the back of my parents’ orchard. Beautiful, but a giant pain in the ass given my job to mow and trim. Its fern-like branches would hang down, heavy with the bright pink berries. A sweet spicy aroma would drift into the house when the warm santa ana winds would blow. The aroma is both brightly cloying and yet earthy. Juicy currants and sun ripened blackberries. Wet forest moss.
Palate: Incredibly elegant. Bright pops of cassis on the tongue and then a slow faaaaade … nope still going. Each time I open my mouth to breathe the flavors surge once again. Warm with a touch of spicy, the pepperiness coming through on a bigger draw. Reminiscent of a stick tea I fell in love with many years ago that I have not been able to source or name to my great chagrin.
Rating: 7 / 10 – I love that it is so perfectly clear that at first Julie didn’t believe there was anything in the glass. I have a Nusbaumer cassis cordial I bought Julie a few weeks ago and poured a side-by-side. While they share DNA, these could not be more different approaches to the same fruit. Capreolus is an elegant perfume. Nusbaumer a dessert lolly, which my wife mixes with champagne to a fabulous result. I would easily reach for the EDV and yes, I kinda wish I could try it at 48% to see what happens, but only out of curiosity.
Nose: Sniffs like an aquavit, fennel, green peppercorn, tail end is dill
Palate: Fennel for days, weisswurst sausage which are mild with a strong parsley vibe, dirt and green peppercorn, trails off into pretty intense levels of beet
Rating: 5 / 10
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