Tastes

Nose: peat, fatty meats, cereal, salt, mint, wood funk, powered sugar, molasses, wet hay. At times floral at times sweet. Taste: Hot savory notes followed up with cracked black pepper ans sliding into a lingering sweet finish. Maple, citrus, saline, nutmeg, smoke, iodine, rich fruits, and wood tannins. It might be easier to place what isnt in this glass than what is. Octomotore 11.1 has to be one of the most complex and robust while also enjoyable whiskies ive ever had the pleasure of ownimg. I'm just wrapping up a bottle ive had for ~7 years and every time ive visited it I fond something new to love.

Nose: Eucalyptus, baking spices including cinnamon and nutmeg, leading to charcoal with a sweet and almoat jucy note hiding behind it. Taste: Sharp, slightly herbal notes leading to warm sweet molasses hinting towards stewed fruit but nevwr quite getting there, with a pretty woody finish. Not at all a bad pour but not very complex nor as likable as its Bourbon cousin. Its very enjoyable but I was personally disappointed as i love the Toasted Bourbon while typically preferring the complexity of ryes, this however was just a biy too simple with not enough clear influence from the toasting. Worth a try, but there are betrer options for $50 if you find it cheaper id snag it.

Nose: Salty sea brine, honey, orange peel, light fruit, slight smoke like a put out match. Taste: Sweet and savory, strarting with honey and salt then moving twards smoked meats, finally has a firey finish leaving you with lingering smoke. Experience: Walking in a small town by the sea, the wind picks up smells of salt from the ocean with something sweet maybe from a fruit try or bakery, then the wind turns and you are awash in the smoke of nearby meats cooking to perfection. These swirl in amd out of your senses as the waves pound in the background. Talisker prides themselves on their maritime nature, their dual meaning slogan is "made by the sea", and if this doesnt remind you of smoked meats in a bay i can only assume you are a land lubber. What makes this dram enjoyable is how it evolves as you smell and sip, riding the waves of sweat, salty, and smokey in swells as you empty your glass. While not the most complex or punchy, the journey in this case is more important than the destination.

Nose: Cherry, wood, maple, pear, and light cream. Taste: More chery, nutmeg, creamy chocolate, oak. Its not the most complex but whats there is great with a lingering and delicious finish. I wish there was a bit more to the nose and initial pallet but the finish is really where it is at with this special release.

Tasted in a bar from wide glass so take review lightly (photo relevant)* Nose: hard to get in the glass provided but... Caramel, vanilla apple, cherry, blackberry pie filling, dusty musk fruity and sweet. Taste: cherry, cacao, waxy nuttyness oak, with a long warm finish. A great dessert pour, warm, lingering and sweet. Its your first post summer visit to your Grandma's and she has her famous fruit pie with a side of ice cream ready and waiting mixing with the dust from the dirt road you took there.

Nose: Wood, cherry, maple, clove, and a hint of pie crust. Taste: Sweet fruit and maple leading into a dark chocolate with some maple. Building throughout is a tanic wood that makes the sides of your mouth pucker and lingers after as a subtle nutty (character not flavor wise) wood. Experience: Your cleaning old furniture with a sented oil. This Maker's has a sweet and sour vibe for me, the usual finishing series notes show up but the heavy tanic wood isn't as heavy in most releases. I am really enjoying it but could see the finish pitting some off.

Nose: cinnamon, nutmeg, fruity cherry, woody sticky seeet maple. Taste: sweet maple spiking quickly to a hot and spicy cinnamon rolling back into a sweet chocolate then ending in a bitter burn of nutmeg and chard spices. Very enjoyable pour with levels of complexity. On the sweet side but evened out by its bitter finish.

Nose: Crisp honey apple, pear, sliiight lemon zest, with light dusty grain notes. Taste: apples again, pear, citrus, nutmeg. Wish I had more to say about this pour, but its pretty straightforward. Good but simple.

Nose: cinnamon is at the core of this pour, dusty hay, caramelized sugars, a hint of cherry. Taste: salted caramel, crisp apple, cinnamon spice with a lingering heat. More: Believe the hype. I was desperately hoping the hype was just the classic tater craze taking over yet another limited release, however this bottle is gud. Like damn good. Hot and oily with a warm finish that like the energizer bunny just keeps going and going and go... Well you get the poont. If you see it, buy it (within reason ov course).

Nose: cherry coke, pie crust, nutmeg. Taste: hot, cinnamon, cherries, bitters, black pepper (more cherry coke). This is a spicy boy for sure. Hot but rich and full bodied a solid poor if you can take the heat.