Tastes
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Knob Creek 9 Year Single Barrel Reserve
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed March 26, 2018 (edited April 1, 2018)Color: Amber Nose: Brown sugar, maple, caramel, and ripe apples rounded by vanilla. Palate: Lighter bodied with an oily mouthfeel. Caramel and of the gate. Heats up in the middle with baking spices joining in. Finish: Warm, with lingering fruitiness, brown sugar, and oak. -
Color: Honey Nose: Maple, brown sugar, and caramel with soft vanilla and apple rounding out the nose. With chocolate and a hint of cinnamon accenting the nose. Palate: Medium bodied with an oily mouthfeel. Maple, caramel, and brown sugar at the front giving way to and apple and some oak in the middle. Finish: Sweet and warming with lingering caramel apple. Very smooth and balanced throughout.
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Balvenie Caribbean Cask 14 Year
Single Malt — Speyside, Scotland
Reviewed March 16, 2018 (edited April 26, 2018)Color: Light honey Nose: Raisins, honey, banana, and vanilla spice with toffee notes. All together lead to a very soft and well balanced fruity inviting nose. Palate: Light bodied with a milky mouthfeel. Molasses, bananas and cinnamon lead the way. With soft oak and toffee building in the middle. Finish: Very smooth drying finish, similar to the 12 Year Double Wood, with lingering molasses and cinnamon. All the flavors are well balanced throughout the palate. No one flavor is over powering, and each goes well together. -
Color: Dark Amber Nose: Milk chocolate, sea salt caramel, ripe red apple, and toasted pecan with dates and molasses making an appearance. Palate: Full bodied with a velvety mouthfeel. Milk chocolate, caramel the way. The dram heats up in the middle really showing the cask strength with mild oakiness and an increasing fruit presence. Finish: Warm with lingering dates, pecan, and caramel. Very pleasant, warm dram that’s really like fall in a cup.
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Color: Light amber Nose: Caramel is very heavy on the nose, light vanilla, with baking spices, rounded by pears and green apples. With some mild molasses making an appearance. Palate: Medium bodied with a velvety mouthfeel. Caramel and green apples lead the way as oak and spiciness join in the middle leading to a unique finish that heats up then mellows out leaving lingering caramel and green apples.
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Oban Distillers Edition
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed March 12, 2018 (edited March 28, 2018)Color: Darker honey Nose: Dates, hint of a sea breeze, honey, orange rind and some pear. Subtle and very balanced with faint smoke at the end. Palate: Light bodied with silky mouthfeel. Dates and honey lead the way. Topped off with a short and sweet pleasant finish with lingering honey, dates and some maple with bright citrus. Very smooth and balanced till the end. -
Color: Dark Honey Nose: Caramel, milk chocolate, and brown sugar topped off with slight orange peel. Palate: Lighter medium bodied, oily feel. Really smooth start to finish. Caramel and milk chocolate at the front with a intensifying brown sugar and oak in the middle. Topped off quick warming finish that leaves lingering brown sugar and a pleasant oakiness.
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Russell's Reserve 10 Year Bourbon
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed March 10, 2018 (edited March 12, 2018)Color: Amber Nose: Cherry and brown sugar. With light apple, followed by caramel and vanilla. Palate: Light bodied with a milky mouthfeel. Apple and vanilla at the front, brown sugar sugar and oak hook in the middle. Followed by a warm finish with lingering cherry. A very smooth warming dram. -
Stagg Jr Barrel Proof Bourbon Batch 1
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed February 25, 2018 (edited April 17, 2018)Color: Dark Amber Nose: Cherry, brown sugar, maple, milk chocolate, and hints of baking spice, rounded by a mild vanilla. No ethanol despite being full proof. (Gets fruitier with water.) Palate: Full bodied with velvety mouthfeel. Cherries, chocolate and cinnamon the lead way. This whisky heats up to a warm spicy finish with chocolate, cinnamon, and cherries.
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