Tastes

Representing speyside Lossie river Nose: caramel, oak, chocolate, another fruit Body: medium Palate: like drinking a smooth caramel, lightly burnt sugar, haunting smoke, sneaky sherry late and smoky Finish: long and caramel smoke. Very good. Note: like syrupy chocolate excellent.

Representing speyside Lossie river Nose: light sherry, light caramel, grass, vanilla, malt, light honey Body: light Palate: honey, very light pepper, refined, light oak Finish: short and sweet Note: very good maybe not as good as the classic 21.

Representing speyside Lossie river Nose:sweet sherry, vanilla red fruit, citrus, lemon, hard honey candy Body: medium Palate: taste like it smells, light pepper, candied fruit, sherry, slight smoke in the end Finish: medium, warming Note: excellent

Representing the isle of skye Nose: sea salt, sherry, orange and citrus, faint smoke Body: medium Palate: delicious. Literally a younger less muscular version of the 18, sweet and Smokey, tobacco is forward, but mixed beautifully with sweet citrus and again faint peat smoke. Finish: not long enough, but such a nice dram. Really not missing anything but some depth.

Nose: caramel, vanilla, cherry, cinnamon, burnt sugar Body: medium Palate: super sweet on the tongue, no burn on first sip but neat was a little hot. tastes like it smells caramel, vanilla, toffee, cinnamon Finish: long, Smokey caramel yum, warming. I put a few ice cubes in half way and the flavor stay about the same the spiciness let up a touch but it didn’t water down the flavor. This is really good with a cube.

Nose: vanilla, toffee, thick burnt caramel Body: medium Palate: spicy, peppery, vanilla, caramel and toffee. Finish: medium to long and warming Note: the best of the three I had from traverse city whiskey. This one is legit.

Nose: sweet maraschino cherry, very light vanilla Body: extremely light Palate: sweet cherry, wisps of vanilla Finish: short Note: very sweet, not much else going on besides cherry, a novelty whisky cool but not great. Not hot at all

Nose: light wine, light vanilla, light orange Body: medium Palate: port wine, mandarin orange, light vanilla Finish: late vanilla medium to short Note: like Nate said more smooth than cherry. I don’t like this as much as the cherry. It’s ok.

Representing isle of orkeny Nose: neat loads of sherry, apricot, sea salt, orange peel, light puff of smoke. With water, waaay more sea salt and sherry, light honey, light caramel Body: medium to full Palate: peppery & spicy, oaky, smoky, tobacco in the late finish. Sherry in the middle and end. With water, still sherry predominates more orange late. Finish: long really nice, loooooong. With classic tobacco Note: this is really good, less refined than HP18, edges are rougher but really very very good.

Nose: sweet honey sherry raisin Body medium light Palate malty, mild sweet sherry Finish medium Note: I like it.