Tastes

Smells like straight nail polish remover lmao. I can optimistically smell prunes and walnuts but it's mostly acetone. Fortunately, taste also is much better in this one. Deep cherry, leather, and wintergreen to lead off with, ending with butterscotch. Also on the sweet side. Velvety mouthfeel. Ultimately, it tastes like if old people could be alcohol.

Smells intensely grainy. Other flavors on the nose include sugar wafer, raw peanuts, and pear skin. You could also convince yourself there's a wet cardboard smell. Taste is much better. Very sweet, like a rich caramel sauce drizzled over pecan pancakes. Taste really saved it.

Nose is fresh sweet apples and shiny sweetness. If you asked me to smell it and had told me this was calvados, I'd have believed you. Has some of that new make funk on the nose, so it's probably quite young. Tastes very sweet and a bit shiny. There's some dusty malt and not much else. Finishes almost with a sugarcane taste.

Nose is cooked apples, malt funk, and peaty iodine. Taste is of peat smoke and white sugar sweetness that balances it out. There's also pears and chestnuts baked in brown sugar and condensed milk. It's desserty, it's delicious, it's highland with aspirations of Islay. I didn't expect much but it's shockingly good.

Nose is a milky caramel with cherry hard candy. Taste is bright apples, followed by a buttery sauce. Cloves kick in at the end. Just a hint of smoke. It's silky smooth. Now this is really dang good, wow. It's not exciting or sexy but it hits its intended marks really well.

Nose is canned fruit cocktail, Cool Whip, and cut hay, which I quite like. Tastes of sherry funk and honey. A lot of the creaminess and bright fruits drop out. A tiny bit of peat sneaks through at the end. Mouthfeel is unfortunately a bit thin. Reminds me of Macallan 12 without the Macallan 12 prices. Very attractive nose with slightly disappointing follow through.

Nose is rich and tropical with ripe banana and papaya. Lots of dried dark fruit with some bright candied citrus shining through. Taste is chocolate covered dried fruit. Finishes with raisiny sherry. A bit hot and a slight bit astringent but the overall texture is actually pretty amazing for it being as low as 43%. Well done, though I'm not sure it's necessarily worth the price.

Nose is dusty and greasy for lack of a better word. The taste is nutty, cherry, dried apricot, and a big dose of lactofermented pickle savoriness. I could have sworn to God that this was finished in sherry casks. A bit funky/skunky.

Nose is anise and a little bit of apricot. Tastes much fruitier than the nose, like baked green apples, honey, and more apricot flavor. Good mouthfeel.

Dusty cherry, bubble gum nose. Tastes of cherry, bubble gum, little bit of apple juice with tang. Not overly spiced. Body is not as thin as expected for its proof. I think it would be even better at like 42 or 43% abv. Pretty good for being a very "bourbon" bourbon