Tastes

Really enjoyable whisky. Nose: opened the bottle and immediately got hit with a ton of oak. A very compex oak though. Smells a bit maple-y too. Maybe even more than it tastes. Like walking through a sugar bush. Taste: oak, maple, caramel, full, mellow, smooth, yet robust. Bit of leather and tobacco too. Lingers well, and actually has a really long finish. There's also a very distinct cherry taste on the tip of the tongue. Color: deep, dark caramel from the additional 9 months of aging. Value: not cheap nor expensive. Good value for around 60 bucks. Overall: 8/10

I wanted to try a njcer bourbom than Bulleit, and took a gamble with Wild Turkey Rare Breed. It paid off. Taste - as soon as i opened it and took a taste it felt like the finest of maple candy or brown sugar hitting my palette, but with less sweetness. There's a little vanilla and you can taste the corn mash in the background. This is a beautiful bourbon and my new favorite dessert drink. Also strong on the palette is oak and spice with a nice long finish. Color - beautiful brown sugar. Nose - Matches the drink but with more floral notes. Value - eh it isn't exactly cheap nor is it expensive. But it is very good and i want this on my shelf. Overall 8.5/10 One of my first really good bourbons (i used to drink too much jim beam, jack, and makers in college)

Nose - Smoke, little medicinal. Can smell the oak a little. Matches the taste nicely. Color - fairly light considering it is 40% Taste - Malty, smoke is less intense than on nose, mid finish is weak, and then lingers for quite a while. Some spice on the early mid palette to mid-late palette. Doesn't coat your tongue with peat, but whispers to it a bit. Appreciate that there is very little sweetness in this whisky and leans towards being briney instead. Like a sea breeze on the shores of Scotland when the sun refuses to but peek its head out past the clouds that move quickly and are low lying. Mouth feel - Slightly astringent. Little spicy. Overall a really lovely whisky for the price that hits a lot of what i look for in a more peaty whisky. I much prefer the medicinal tastes to some of the bbq like smoke you'll get at times. More complex than i would have thought for a 10 year. I dig this whisky, and am excited to explore more than my ant sized bottle.

After drinking scotch it just tastes like corn. It's ok. Good for mixed drinks and prefer the Rye. My favorite whisky for Toddys when sick.

Great peaty Islay. Sweet to balance out the smoke. First sip tastes like a campfire. Second one tastes like a delicious campfire. There's so much tobacco in the peatiness as well.

Very enjoyable whisky. Can be sweet up front, but has some nice complexity on the mid to late palete as well. Honey and forest floor notes as well as nice oak.