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White Oak Akashi Blended Whisky
Blended — Hyogo, Japan
Reviewed February 24, 2020 (edited April 12, 2022)I really really really liked this one. Surprisingly flavored for a blended whisky (now that i am a pretentious prick about whisky i only care about single malts), great on the nose, great on the palate, great finish and great balance. I would give it a perfect 100, but it felt not perfect but close so i gave it a 96. It can also be a 92, but it did felt like more. Bottled at 40%abv, with an amontillado sherry color. On the nose is wonderful and inviting. Caramel, brown raising cake, slight stinky peat, recent baked cake, red fruits (cherry maybe), mango peel or mango pulp, floral notes, baked red fruits, perfumed. Lovely. On the palate is also very nice, very balanced, pepper in the beggining, an orange note that comes and goes, tobacco, grass, hay, wood that might be mizunara since it is different than oak, very interesting and pleasant with a long warm, mouth watering finish. Overall i give this beauty a 96 over 100, many might not agree with me, but this was a great dram and i loved every second of it. Cheers! -
This one goes straight to my top shelf. Last year i learn what a Sassicaia Wood finish whisky could be when i had a dram of the perfect Arran Sassicaia, which is discontinued and it melt my heart because i couldn't get a bottle anymore. Not even in wine searcher i could find the bottle. It will forever live in my memory (and stomach). But then, i got an email from one of my typical online stores that said: "there is this new Benromach Sassicaia wood finish whisky". And of course i bought it. It was amazing. Everything i hoped for. Bottled at 45%abv, with a unique pink cantaloupe color, never seen before in a dram. My wife says it is "gold rosé". On the nose it was very tropical. Pineapple right away, white chocolate, an ashy spiciness, wet dirt, very perfumed but not too intense. After the first sip it became clear that dry peaches were also present. On the palate it was amazing. Only three notes, but super pleasant ones. Hershey's milk chocolate "Bites"; pineapple and ginger. The aftertaste was something completely different. A puff of pleasant almost minty-refreshing smoke and ginger. For $60 you can't just get anything better than this. The complexity and pleasant tropical flavors are just too well crafted. 96 over 100 and that is because the aroma was a little dim. Sláinte!
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