Tastes

Ex bourbon notes are covered with delicious sherry dry fruit notes. Floral notes is just floating in and out in between. Everything is just light not heavy. American oak wood, charred, bitterness started to show on your palate a lot more intensely and vividly where it was hidden away on the nose. All the goodness of bourbon sugary notes and wonderful dry fruit sherry notes all started to fade away from foreground to background until you left with a bit dry and a bit bitterness almost like a black tea even and some spicy notes in your month. Once you had couple of sip, sherry notes and American oak will be more prominent on the nose. There is too much American oak notes in there for me to love it. I like it but I don't love it.

Solera is in the name so you would immediately expect sherry cask solera sysyem flavour profile. And yes, even though the color is golden amberish you do get your sherry dry fruit notes. I also found a note that I never found in other wiskey "fresh cut cucumber" just zipping in and out on your nose. The base of all this is your sugary notes but unlike your bourbon candy sugar. On top of all this is this beautiful floral notes that embellish the wiskey. On the palate is your smooth flowing sherry notes with oak spicy notes that does not linger too long just there too tease your palate, and not much of bitterness as well. Overall it's a beautiful wiskey.

From the nose you get most likely ex bourbon notes of delicious sugary notes humming in the background. While most likely an American oak of wood spice, bitterness are right in front of you. Also smoky and little peaty notes zipping in and out. If you let the drink sit there for couple of mins, you will discover they switches places. Once you take a sip, banana, creme brulee started to show up then fade away as wood species took over with a medium finish.

Interesting flavour profile on the nose, even though you get full smoky and peaty notes. But if you try to get beyond that, you get mint, dry fruit, some faint bourbon sugary notes. I was surprised that I thought smoky and peaty will dominate everything on your palate after you take a sip. But the initial flavour profile is without any of that. I do get a hint of American oak in there then follow by smoky and peaty notes like an ocean wave until only peaty note left. For me peaty note taste like lodine, but this is more acceptable than lagavulin 16. If lagavulin 16 is ocean wave then this is your lake ripples.

Sort of artificial bourbon sugary smell. Sherry notes and quarter cask notes are in and out in the background, so dry fruit are there but it's not thrre. Because it's 1st fill bourbon so you get all that wood spicy notes straight to your nose as well as on your palate all the way from start to finish. It's like the name of the distiller Wolf"burn". The bitterness also come through because most likely from 1st fill those american oak. If this is using maybe 2nd or 3rd hand of ex bourbon cask might be better for my taste.

The nose is complex. You get all the sugary notes and a tiny hint of sherry in the background plus some generous smoky note and a little hint of peat, sea breeze hidden in the background. On the palate the smoky notes took over more but very balance throughout.

Sherry note are on the upper level so you get those dry berries straight away while American oak and the wood spice are always in the lower level hidden in the background. There is a tiny hint of grass and bitter notes from American Oak after finish as if you chew on the grass. Is it worth over $100 NZ dollors, for me it's not. It should be price around $65 but it's macallan so...

You get your Johnnie Walker notes of smoky and peaty notes throughout but what stands out in this one for me is you get those deep sherry notes very similar to Dalmore 12 on your nose. On the palate though is your normal Johnnie Walker notes in the background while those deep sherry notes sort of wrap around with it.

I was expecting sherry notes on the nose but instead I get all the bourbon notes, like those sugary candy. Sherry note started to show on the palate. It's actually quite similar to hibiki somehow.

Your normal bourbon notes but the American oak spicy notes are there in your face. So it jumps out from your normal bourbon as it's got more complex notes in there.