Tastes

Super Heavy Peated is right. The nose is heavy on smoke, notes of barbecue sauce, rubber, and cinnamon. The palate is smooth but spicy. Clove, cinnamon, paprika, and orange dance on the tongue. The finish is short and smoky. Ash, cherries, and peat hang out for a bit.

Nose: Vanilla, chocolate pecan clusters, orange peel Palate: Peanut, caramel, vanilla, rye spice comes through toward the back Finish: Cognac lingers a little but gives way quickly to peanut brittle and fresh fruit

Every sip is packed with peat. Nose: bacon, peat, smoke, coconut Palate: apricot, peat, peat, and more peat Finish: lives for a short time. Notes of smoke, tobacco, and you guessed it, peat

Nose: grapes, port wine, oak Palate: sharp. Strong peat, malt, and stone fruit. Finish: Long and smooth. Notes of peat and smoke

Holy smoke. Found a bottle in the VA ABC store, and was fortunate enough to be able to get it. I wish I was as mature when I was a twenty something as this scotch is. The nose opens with vanilla, peat, sherry, antique wood, and hints of pineapple. The palate is amazingly smooth, complex, and deep. Each sip brings you deeper into a smoke filled lounge where decisions of state of made. Chocolate leads into smoke which leads into pine, which brings you to a party with dried fruits, nuts, tobacco, and figs. The finish lingers for a wonderful eternity. Incense and vanilla round into an herb garden of flavors. Basil and thyme come through followed quickly by dark chocolate before disappearing into the night.

Nose: Vanilla, caramel, ginger, milk chocolate Palate: Cinnamon, baking spices, spun sugar, plums, smoke Finish: Deep smoke, caramel, crispy rice, sweet corn, spices

Nose: Vanilla, toffee, baking chocolate Palate: Smooth bodied, caramel, cinnamon, fireball candy Finish: Caramel pulls through. Chocolate pudding comes through

Nose: Apple, spun sugar, vanilla Palate: Super smooth. Notes of maple, brown sugar, apple pie, and baking spices Finish: Baking spices pull through a little more, finishes with a lingering sweet apple

Nose: Vanilla, green apple, cinnamon, caramel Palate: Caramel, tar, baked apples Finish: Mild burn, expected at 107, notes of baked apple pie, oak, vanilla, and burnt sugar

Nose: Apple, caramel, honey comb Palate: Young bourbon, notes of apple, pear, and baking spices Finish: Oaky in the finish. Lingering burn with a little bit of caramel