Tastes

Nose: Pear, maple syrup, cherry, licorice, smoke, redwood, floral, plum, vanilla Label: honey, fresh fruit, toffee, soft cooked apples, luscious brown sugar Aged in Pedro Ximenez Oloroso and refill ex-bourbon casks. Initial impression strong maple and brown sugar and spice, with briny and peaty body. Finish:smoked tobacco and leather with sweet floral/cooked apple sprinkled with light toffee.

Nose: Vanilla, blueberry, floral, fruit leather, cherry, wood char, dried fig, dried plum Palate: pepper, sherry, leather, smoke, ester, warming effect that envelopes the back of the tongue and throat that grows into a medicinal spices, bitters, almond skins, and floral notes. Aftertaste is a light sherry and unripe strawberries.

Smells like caramel, maple syrup, vanilla, and floral notes. Has a bright spicy and bitter tobacco starting profile followed by smoke and woody flavors. The sherry part (dried plums) and apple mash toward the end are subtle for me, but it finishes sweet. It has a pretty pronounced peaty smokiness. Definitely has the oakiness from charred wood! I can only slightly see where they are saying orange marmalade (sweetness and bitterness), but its pretty subtle. Adding a bit of water makes it smell sweeter and more floral like honey, with vanilla and smoke. It is lot softer and smoother going down with a stronger floral and briney coastal flavor followed by peat and oak. Long finish of old leather and tobacco, which moves to grape skins (without the tannins) and dusty old roasted coffee, root beer, and marshmallow. Sherry finish is more pronounced.

Sweet, vanilla, and caramel smelling. Strong spicy oaky notes followed by strong warming pepper and light brine and smokiness. Has some hints of dark dried fruit. A lingering bitter peanut skin with undertones of delicate flavors of pears, jujube, and floral notes that develop and expand to the whole palate.

Very strong spice and warming effect, with sharp mineral flavor. Has a resinous woody flavor followed by very light honey, and smoke. After taste is lightly sweet, with vanilla and fruity finish. (Apple/Ester-like) Mouth feel has texture like roasted peanuts with the skin (tannin-like) and popcorn, with a long bright cherry-like finish.

Sharp bright floral, grassy with balanced sweetness. Similar to green apple.