Tastes

A picture of Homer Simpson drooling would capture my reaction to tasting this. Mmmm, bourbon cask scotch. Delicious!

Strong band-aid aid smell dominated at first, after quite a while in the glass a sweet meat note emerged, this is most wonderful on the palate, it's rich with an olive oil like texture, sweet and briney, the finish is kinda short with band aids and some smoke.

The nose has a shoe polish scent, there's some fresh cut apple and a faint cereal notes too, the palate is smooth and slightly oily with faint apple, pear and cereal notes, the finish is short to medium length.

Strong band-aid scent dominates the nose initially, peat smoke emerges next with some stone fruit subtly in the background, the palate is rich, buttery and smooth with some honey and faint caramel notes, a hint of smoke appears late in the spicy medium finish.

This is quite an interesting single grain whiskey. Tootsie roll, fudge, nilla wafers, some spice, fruit and floral notes on the nose, light and creamy palate with some fruit, honey and pepper, the finish is medium length with some intense spice at first fading to a pleasant hint of chocolate.

I picked this bottle up in February of this year at Costco in a nice wood display case with a 15 year old and 12 year old for $99.99, amazing deal. This is my third tasting and I still can't wrap my head around how good this is. The nose has apples, sherry, oranges and cereal, the palate is smooth and rich with more sherry, oranges and cereal notes, the finish is long and a little spicy. Oh, and a splash of water makes it even better.

On the nose i get corn bread, butter scotch candy, musty hay and some cooking spices, the palate is creamy and smooth with a hint of the butter scotch and corn bread, the finish is hot, as one would expect from a whiskey this young, and short with some musty corn.

sweet corn on the nose and smooth palate, finish is medium length. Seems like a one trick pony and not particularly impressive. A splash of water adds sweetness to the nose, makes the palate even smoother and adds some vanilla, but adds a little heat too, finish remains the same.

This was on the clearance rack at Bevmo. I read the reviews and they weren't very encouraging, but I'm a sucker for a sale, so I bought it anyway. This is a bottle from batch 66. On to the tasting. I get cotton candy, candy corn, pralines, rye and a fair amount of alcohol on the nose, the palate is sweet and smooth with a hint of cola and the longer I held it the hotter it got, the finish was hot to me and seemed to last a long time with the cola and candy corn hiding in the background.