Tastes

Nose: Cherry, brown sugar, honey, dusty hay. Taste: cherry pie ending with spiced apple cinnamon.

Nose: What can I add that other's haven't, it's like walking into a walrus' leather and wood stain shop under the docks. Taste: Salt, smoke, peat, meat, iodine, all things dark but lovely. Feel: You are instantly transported to a time when hands not machines made things. Where walking into a store would mean smelling the craft. Wood, leather, the sea. This is what Laphroaig captures, a smell, taste, and time, forgotten. L10 is a right of passage, a coming of age for whisky drinkers. Like a doppio espresso, it's something you hand to someone who is ready for it or someone you want to teach a lesson to. It's the "you think you like smokey whisky eh?" Its Fame is well earned and while you do not have to like you do have to try it.

Nose: wood, cherry, clean smoke, plumb, old books. Taste: Pepper, leather, wood, unseasoned steak. creosote. The experience is of stilling in a leather armchair by a fire with the window open after a fresh rain.

Nose: Vanilla chocolate, pixie sticks, apples, Taste: Cinnamon twists, orange peel, pepper, baking soda, molasses. The feel: it is like walking into a general with your grandpa as a child. The light hearted aura of sunlight, candies, paper, honey sticks, and light dust. However coming with is is the promise of work. Oils, metal, wood, and feed. All blending together. You know you're here for the work but you see that smirk on your grandfather's face and you know you'll walk out with something magical not just practical.

Nose: cinnamon, cherry, red apple, pie crust with fruit juices burnt in, brown sugar. Taste: the barrel shines through with chard oak being the the main taste, caramel apples, fruit on the tip of the tongue. The experience is that of a Norman Rockwell painting, American as envisioned and remembered. This could be enjoyed on a pourch just as easily as in a New York bar. Cherry pie, craft, an open sky, and a world where anything is possible. This whiskey tastes like America.

Nose: chocolate, Irish cream, pool water, pecan, coffee (but probably just the name messing with my head, no actual coffee in this) Taste: Vanilla, molasses, iodine, chocolate again, nutmeg, tree bark. Feel: Sweet, Dark, and Mysterious, like Charley and the Chocolate Factory. It's sweet and welcoming then turns butter and dark and finishes off with you feeling slightly confused but knowing you had a unique experience. This is a whiskey I want to spend a lot more time with.