Tastes
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Benromach 10 Year
Single Malt — Speyside, Scotland
Reviewed December 9, 2021 (edited January 19, 2022)This is Christmas in a bottle. There is cinnamon and nutmeg and spice and salt and butter on the nose that can remind you of walking into grandma’s house as she bakes up her famous recipes. The smoke taste on the palette reminds you this is a dram and not a date square but so well balanced you can be in two places of memory at once. Nice soft finish where everything comes together is joyous harmony.69.0 CAD per Bottle -
Johnnie Walker Green Label 15 Year
Blended Malt — Scotland
Reviewed September 30, 2021 (edited September 26, 2023)The most earthy whisky I’ve ever had. It tastes like the smell of fresh tilled earth and loam, clean and pure and natural. Many whiskies can taste like something processed, stewed fruit, baked goods, etc but Green Label tastes like you went foraging in the woods and plated your findings. Very unique and pleasurable. -
This is an “a little bit” whisky as it has a little bit of everything in it. Peat and ash, apple and smoke, vanilla and honey, simple and complex, nice and smooth. Nothing overpowering despite all the flavours you can find within. You can drink a lot hunting that taste on the tip of your tongue and never be upset you have to pour another and can’t nail down all the flavours.
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If you’ve ever wondered what a bonfire tasted like, here is your answer. Amongst the smoke at times you discern the cedar or hemlock or pine spices, Port Askaig 8yo likewise has its flavours emerge from the smoke that tickle the tastebuds. It’s earthy from nose to finish, like being outside, instead of some whiskies that smell like inside a bakery with all those crafted scents. This is naked and raw and there for you to discover. Delightful.
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This is the most affordable HP whisky in my neck of the woods by far, and perhaps as they designed it they missed some of the flavours that make HP a signature whisky. It’s nice, smooth, and you don’t notice how fast it goes down. Might be the HP dram you can discern heather the most, but without distinction of the typical HP bottles with peat and smoke. Great bang for buck.
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