Tastes

Nose of a brûléed banana. Taste is vanilla, banana, oak and honey. This is an easy drinker that isn’t terribly complex, maybe a decent daily drinker when your not feeling something complex. Very thin and with a quick finish

Oak, vanilla, and heat on the nose. Flavour is is smooth and good, if basic. Mostly vanilla and oak with more pepper and rye flavour than the mash bill would suggest. Body is light, finish is quick.

Burnt sugar and plum on the nose. Vanilla forward followed by Tobacco leaf, raisins and plum with a little oak in there for good measure. Nice Finish, short to medium. Very smooth with almost no burn.

This is for the 12 year bespoke cask finished In Amburana. Wow, utterly amazing. Colour is light honey, strawlike. Nose is like a caramel apple, bright fresh and sugary. The taste is very much cinnamon toast crunch, true to the cask finish there is some sugarcane in here with a dose of cinnamon, maple, toffee, and cream. Dry, tannic texture. The spiciness and heat of the rye have been mellowed our significantly but there is a long floral, cinnamon finish.

Davidson’s store pick, Barrel 483. Nose of baking fruit pastries, apples and pears with melted sugar. Very complex flavours, brown sugar and vanilla is replaces by toasted oak is replaced by a linger of cinnamon and baking spice. Very dry, somewhat spicy finish that feels like raw cinnamon and lingers.This is easy drinking, complex, and finishes with a punch, three contrasts that combine my favorite elements of bourbon. My fav. Of the Davidson’s store picks

Very thin and very light. Nose has lots of oak, a little maple, vanilla, banana and a nice nose tingling mix of heat and pepper spice. Taste is the same as the nose here, sweet, then peppery and with a surprising amount of heat, showing it’s youth. Finish is the best part, nice, long and spicy. It’s good, just not my preference in a scotch, almost feels more like identity crisis rather than complex. Water completely ruins this pour.

Good, especially for the value. Somewhat imperceptible nose of overripe banana and clove. Body is also very light, almost too light and not complex enough. Cherry, oak, and vanilla are what this is all about. Finish is medium to long and has wisps of oak, clove and cinnamon while predominately raisin and leather.

Nose is floral forward but ends in pepper. Thin and light initially, somewhat honey sweet. Flows into pepper, and slight antiseptic mint. Finish is quick and spicy but not overly so.

Decent, especially as a value buy. A nose of raisins, leather, and burnt sugar. Taste on the sweet side, vanilla and sherry, a hint of nuttiness and oak. Finish is short and not too hot, leaves me wanting a bit more heat.

Toasted nuts and sugary Carmel is rounded out with vanilla and a small amount of oak. Finish is spicy and slightly warm in a very good way. A small splash in coffee on the weekend makes for a great cup o joe.