Tastes

very cotton candy, honeydew tart and sweety kind of smell. on the taste, extremely oaky and smoky. hard to get other notes besides the oaky notes, i kind of get some herbal green tea but very bitter. mouthfeel is smooth, not oily, maybe silky. very warm and spicy.

very complex. wasn't easy to identify notes. smell is toffee, very obvious. a little bit of honey, but the burnt kind that you find in french toast. then the mouthfeel is extremely oily, just like chivas 12. taste was hard to figure out, i'd say first taste matches the smell and aftertaste is somewhere in-between cocoa, dark chocolate, earthy, toasty as in burnt. not smoky or peaty, i think, just toasty and earthy, a bit oaky too.

smell is way more complex than taste. i get banana, honeydew, coconut, very fruty. on the taste, it's woody mostly, a bit herbal like honey and cress syrup. i really like the contrast though. very good experience.

very peaty and smoky on the smell. taste is immediately spicy, gets even hard to tell the other tastes besides the bitter note. on the bitter, very complex, i'd say medicinal, something like a fennel syrup. my gf got earthy on the taste. drank it at a nice fancy bar and the bartender was surprised i ordered it, apparently it's not very popular. he accidentally spilt some of it on me so he gave me two doses as an apology, which was great.

okay, very complex i think. i'm puzzled but not sure i love it. smell was obviously vanilla and brown sugar, which suddenly became the kind of sweet taste you get from a capuccino or a latte, so that mix of coffee, milk, cream and whipped cream as well. very sweet and inviting. taste was surprising. hard to identify at first, but it's indeed woody and dark herbal, like licking an eucalyptus tree or something like that. but not medicine kind of herbal, just the bitter woody taste. nothing smoky, just solid wood. the that's what she said jokes can come now. Update: my friend got anise, coffee ice cream, caramel, banana, licorice, apple pie. wasn't sure if i loved it at first, but second drink was way better. kinda love it now.

extremely complex, certainly the best whiskey i've drank. my coworker invited me to his birthday party at his place and i just saw that in his living room. he had no idea it was such an expensive and great whiskey. his father gave it to his grandpa, who left him this apartment. he decided to drink it to celebrate his birthday. everyone there took a glass and we did the whole whiskey drinking ritual. first thing for me was the extremely peculiar cinnamon and pear smell. not apple, maybe green apple, but pear was very strong. on the smell there was also licorice and hazelnut notes, which were both very present on the taste. the finish was very anise and quite spicy. thanks p., that was wonderful. we were drinking this crazy royal salute and drinking the chivas 12 and the dimple so it was a great tasting experience, comparing those three.

that was a great real introduction to bourbon. i drank the jacks and the beams before, but never actually focusing on the experience. this is something else. first of all, what a pleasant feel on the nose. super sweet, almost no pronounced alcohol. initally i was just thinking about the sugar, like cotton candy, but then the fruitiness kicks. and it isn't like real organic frutiness, i think what it really is is banana jelly beans. that's the smell. but oh, what a turnaround when you taste it. extremely creamy mouthfeel. not oily like the chivas, but creamy liked whipped cream, in the sense of its density gradually fading away. the sweet artifical fruit taste very quickly turns bizarrely spicy. not like pepper cause you don't get the actual spice taste, you just get that spiky feel in your tongue, you almost want to stick it out of your mouth. really abrasive but really good. after taste is not really smoky in the sense of woody smokiness, but really what it feels like is just having smoked a cigar, like tobacco smokiness but with that extra strong cigar-like after taste. really like this whiskey. probably the best i've had so far in this whiskey journey. i had the laddie before but it had a big ice rock and i was already drunk so that one doesn't count.

a nice complex but easy going whisky. on the nose, i initially get spicy and strong alcoholic smell, but it quickly fades and becomes this sweet fruity smell, i get mostly pear. once you dive in, first taste is very much what you get on the nose after the initial burn, just sweet and fruity. but right afterwards, the spice kicks, and you can really feel the burn. it's not unpleasant but it's a bit unexpected after the first fruity taste. the aftertaste almost reminds me of gin & tonic with hibiscus tea, it's kind of like this herbal tea taste with the bitterness from the tonic. a surprisingly complex whisky but once you get into it it's very to be pouring doses without noticing it.

i like this one. the bitter after taste kind of makes it not as good as it could be, but i do like the bitter coffee-ish aftertaste. it kinda tastes like coffee that has gone cold and bitter, but the heat of the spicy alcohol (both on the smell and on the second taste) makes it exciting. what could come accross as herbal comes as somewhat coffee-ish to me, specially if the coffee is not too strong, watered down or just cold. the sweet part isn't exactly fruity, i get more of a licorice anise taste. not really a round mouth feel, it's spiky cause of the spicy and wood notes. not an entry level whisky, but a good one to explore more flavours. the finish isn't really flat, it's got some spikes of sweet licorice anise and spicy wood, kinda oscillating from one to the other.

very good. not too strong. really like the oily mouth feel. it was kinda hard to identify what were the most prominent tastes, it felt very complex. kinda decided on caramel for the first taste and peat for the after taste. but then i think herbal is very strong as well. it feels like black tea somewhat. really like this one.