Tastes

Green aroma, musty and mossy. Heavy bite and alcohol burn, floral and spice. More young wood, cinnamon tail. Interesting blend of flavors, not a fan of the young. Bitter dark chocolate tail, interesting. Points for originality!

Light wood and cereal aroma. I'm getting the same banana notes that Chivas regal mizunara gave me, I wonder if that's just what mizunara wood tastes like to me. Pretty creamy, light flavors but blended nicely. Sugar cane sweetness, pretty heavy vanilla, fairly long tail from the richness. Interesting and well blended, but that banana note will just never be for me.

Delightful sweet aroma, dark fruity and wood. Raisins. Flavor is very wood forward,minimal bite but a bit lacking in body as well. The fruit flavor is still there, just more faint. The wood is complex and musty though, very nice. Medium tail.

Herbal peated aroma, interesting one that I can't at all place. Medicinal. Bright and mellow for a Laphroaig, same medicinal herb flavor that curves into green wood on the tail. Great body and richness, bright, and super enjoyable up until the very end of the tail. If not for that green finish it would be magnificent.

Strong, rich, fiery, honestly can't tell much of a difference between the regular small batch but that expression is fantastic so...no issues here.

Standard Speyside aroma, rich fruit sweetness and wood on the nose. Flavor is fruit forward, peach and grape with some gentle spice underneath and showing up more on the tail. Richer than expected, tastes kind of typical but on the well done end of typical. Nothing exciting, but above average.

Sweet and medium rich, tastes like above average Speyside. Apple and grape fruit flavors dominate, good body for balance. If you like sweet Speyside it's a good choice.

Super strong barley aroma, sweet and malty. Flavor matches the aroma well. Spicy and strong, rich and sweet underneath. Excellent blend. Richness carries the blend of sweet and spice into a nice long tail. Fantastic.

Sweet malty aroma, perfectly blended. Enjoyable. Initial hit is light and thin, but then all the flavor rushes in on the tail. Bright sparkling spice riding a good alcohol burn. Cane sugar sweetness riding a deep wood flavor before the spice kicks in. After the tail is a lingering sharp sweetness, almost tequila like but way more enjoyable. Much longer and better tail than expected from the medium body. Interesting journey.

Pear notes on the nose, super strong. Light flavor, pretty light compared to their Canadian ones. Sweet, but well blended flavors. Butterscotch in with the pair, medium light body but longer tail than you'd expect. Lingering spice, very subtle.