Tastes
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This kingly bouquet is sweet and peaty, with smoke and pine and cherry aromatic pipe tobacco, and savory too with smoked BBQ meat. The grand palate is vast in its array of tastes and flavors ranging from sweet to peaty, salty to smoky, and an oily mouthfeel keeps it around for a while. The finish is warm, smooth and savory but short, knowing you’ll be wanting to return for more.
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Colorado Gold Colorados' Own Corn Whiskey
Corn — Colorado, USA
Reviewed May 4, 2024 (edited May 7, 2024)The nose is dry but sweet with cereal grains, corn pits and corn mazes at a pumpkin patch, fun dip and sweet tarts candies. The palate is a one trick pony of sweetness, fun dip and cotton candies and pear, being the notes. The dram goes down warm as well. The finish is hot going down and lasts moderately long then leads into a sweet dry aftertaste. -
Four Roses Small Batch Select Bourbon
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed November 19, 2023 (edited May 7, 2024)On the nose things started sweet with chocolate and nougat, brown sugar, dark rich plum, and cherry. Notes like worn leather and cedar wood finished out the bouquet. One is welcomed with warmth, caramel, spicy curry, and a rich Christmas baked pastry dessert. The finish is of medium length with a spicy exit. -
The extra age with new char does some good work. The nose opens to a summer scene filled with campfire smoke, BBQ char, and sweet fruits like apple. The palate is balanced with sweet honeyed candy, apple and stone fruits on one side with a dry mouthfeel and smokiness with a dash of salt on the other. The finish is medium length and reminiscent of a dry wine.
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Chivas Regal 13 Year Manchester United Special Edition
Blended — Scotland
Reviewed June 24, 2023 (edited June 26, 2023)The nose has light smoke, is herbal and medicinal with eucalyptus, then it smooths out into butter and honey with orange zest. The palate is bittersweet and has notes of honey, caramel candy, with a buttery mouthfeel. The whiskey is warming with a shorter finish -
Lagavulin Distillers Edition
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed June 24, 2023 (edited June 26, 2023)The nose composed of sweet fruity smoke and beachside briny breeze, like smoking a nice aromatic pipe blend by the ocean. The palate is sweet and salty, fruity and savory, the contrast yet balance is stunning. The scotch had a medium to long finish but low and subtle warmth, like the steady glow of a charcoal of a fire died down. -
Glenlivet Caribbean Reserve
Single Malt — Speyside, Scotland
Reviewed December 30, 2022 (edited December 31, 2022)Nose: The nose is fruity specifically with stone fruits like apricot and plum. Summertime notes of coconut and sunscreen along with sugarcane complete the rum cask expectations. Taste: The palate matches the nose, fruity and sweet. It is rum-like, but not overly so, with an additional taste of pears and plums. Finish: The finish is swift, sweet, with what remains being some barrel spice.
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