Tastes

Nose is light vanilla carried by tea leaves. The tea flavors carry into the palette. Some honey and shortbread but tea and mild cayenne pepper carried the profile for me. Finish falls a little flat but is not offensive.

This might be the best Irish whiskey I’ve had. Very crisp apple juice and vanilla nose that carries into the palette. The flavor is rich with a long finish giving a ton of complexity for this category. As it opens I pick up some baking spices, oak and darker fruit tones, not quite prune but close. I seek out a journey in my whiskey tasting and this delivers.

Apple juice, apricot, and pear on the nose. Smoke on the front of the front of the pallette with a bit of burn, finishing with the very sweet fruit tones. A little thin and dry but leaves a good after taste.

A subtle rye nose with dominant caramel and vanilla tones. Rye touched the palette first, then a long flavor journey begins burying the rye and opening a dark date undertone moving to sweeter marshmallow, some tea leaf oak and baking spice round its long and complex finish. This is excellence in rye.

Like regular Blanton’s, but more flavors. Standard orange blossom citrus and sweet nose. Sweet undertone with citrus overtone. Damn near perfect!

Punchy and spicy nose. Palette swings above its weights drinking like the full proof. Very sweet brown sugar with a little nuttiness but sting spice and dry finish. Good, but I can get the same flavor for less in the full proof bottle.

Dominant oak notes with a hint a sweetness capped by cardamom. Ridiculously smooth, with cinnamon overtone and brown sugar undertone. Not complex... a beginner’s beauty, but advanced drinkers will find it week.

Cardamom nose with heavy barrel notes. Rich spicy and oak palette with surprising burns. Complex finish waffling between sweet and spicy.

Nose is nutty and honey with a spicy overtone, hinting floral. Heavy wood note palette with brine, finishes floral. Burning in the back. Definitely old, not off-putting.

Very musty and fruity nose. Mixed fruit palette with a tad of smoke and oak in the middle finishing tobacco. Nice burn from the the high proof makes it more enjoyable than most scotches for me. Spendy, but a good sipping scotch for those that only go scotch once in awhile.