Tastes

Nose: salty, orange, medicinal and seaweed Taste: woody and brine with sweetness Finish: Smokey and peaty What a nice whisky, Smokey and peaty with an oily mouth feel. Easy drinking

Nose: sweetness, acetone, pear and honey Taste: mild peat and sweetness, honey and pineapple Finish: peat fades into pineapple sweetness towards the end, some bite. Medium finish Solid dram, needs more peat, but I guess that is why they opened Lagg.

Nose: citrus, vanilla sweetness, some dirty leather and salty sea air. Taste: creamy malt, pepper and cinnamon spices, some low peat/earth notes Finish: medium, creamy and spicey Great budget dram, a favorite I always enjoy.

Nose: smoke, apple, caramel, menthol Taste: apple juice, heavy alcohol, honey, chili spice Finish: short, burning spice and peat Young, intense and Smokey. Definitely alcohol forward but not overwhelming.

Nose: burned out campfire, peat, dirt, sweetness, honey Taste: salty, sea brine, rubber and sweetness, the burned campfire is there, hiding the sweetness, that comes as the ash disappears. Sweetness is an orange or tangerine flavor I think. Finish: medium finish, dries as it fades This whisky is very drinkable and delicious. It’s complex enough to keep you occupied. Really enjoying this bottle, almost wish it wasn’t so easy to drink since it is disappearing faster than I would like.

Nose: cinnamon spice, brown sugar, wood, vanilla, fruit Taste: heat, brown sugar, oak, dark cherries, spice, vanilla, chocolate With Water: Finish: alcohol finish that keeps going any going with some chocolate One of the better bourbons I have had this year. Proofing it down with a little water and it hits a sweet spot of drink ability and flavors.

Nose: peat, smoke, banana and red apple Taste: smoke, spicey (cinnamon), vanilla and sweetness. Finish: sweetness lingers with smoke Great, different dram. Would love to try more rum cask Islays.

Nose: smoke. Peat, lemon Taste: peppery, smoke, earthy peat an some wood (sandalwood) notes Finish: long, peaty Very clean, elegant malt. The warm finish keeps going. Very nice bang for the buck.

"Nose: floral sweetness, pear, red apple Taste: raisin, oak and spice Finish: long zesty Very competent, standard Speyside sherried Malt. Great dram, but nothing special. Easy drinker. "

Nose: iodine, wood and a sweet BBQ note Taste: pear, peat and smoke Finish: sweet, dry and long finish Wow, surprised at the complex flavors and nuanced levels. Sweet BBQ throughout, great whisky. Need to try more aged in mizunara oak.