Tastes

Generic fake orange / tootsie pop taste. It just tastes like plain cheap triple sec with an off finish.

Allegedly not "real Japanese whisky" if you're concerned about that. Nose: Crisp apples, pears, and honey. Heavy cake-y malt. Peaches, green grapes with the skins. Taste: light pear upside down cake with dense honey. Mild peaty and fruity finish including melons and peaches. Almost a bananas foster note as well. Not a bad blend. The taste is varied enough not to get too boring or one dimensional. Wouldn't pay more than like $40 a bottle though.

Nose: intense lemon, orange, and fig. Vanilla pudding and light fruit cake. Taste: bananas foster with a slight hint of apple and cinnamon. Very grassy hay finish. Light hint of vanilla, caramel, and toffee. Water brings out the citrus, wood oils and burnt fruit cake flavors. Not too bad but nothing mind blowing. You can definitely tell the grain is the dominant part of the blend but the malt and pot still definitely helps round things out. It’s good to see at a reasonable price rather than shoving outsourced stuff at a premium price.

Nose: light caramel and vanilla. Perfumed floral notes. Light apple and peach. Taste: caramel and vanilla go toward a generic apple taste ending with lemon and hay.

Nose: strong apple, caramel and wintergreen. Toffee and vanilla. Taste: heavy burnt hay and wintergreen with tobacco. Strong woody and fruity finish of apple and peaches drizzled with caramel.

Nose: Intense dill, peaches, vanilla and light hay / dirt. Aniseed and dill merge into a rye bread scent. Very light chocolate and apple nose. Taste: Very thin and watery open of dirty hay that slowly devolves into heavy rye spice and caramel with a bright dill and menthol finish. Water brings everything out. Light toffee and caramel covered peaches with mint and dill with the dirty hay note buried towards the end and a spicy finish. Maybe needs more time in the bottle but kinda underwhelming at least for my tastes. Would probably be a good cocktail base.

Nose: baked apples. Cinnamon, nutmeg, light hint of chocolate and tobacco. Taste: strong apple and cinnamon with caramel vanilla and oak. Average bourbon nothing too special or weird.

Nose: Light peat, rosemary, charcoal. Peaches, black pepper, light citrus and vanilla. Taste: Mayonaise, black pepper bacon and blue cheese. The malt takes over half way through and it finishes with a spicy black pepper / ginger / cinnamon. Its close to the old curiositas but it feels younger. Will compare soon

Nose: dense fog, date and caramel. Light pepper and lemon with the Caol ila malty note. Taste: dense sherry fig with caramel, vanilla, honey. The peat is in the finish but barely there. Presents as a burnt rosemary floral note. Water opens up the general Caol ila profile with the sherry in the background as figs and a bit of a sour taste.

Nose: ripe grapes/cherries. Burnt brisket, orange Bundt cake, Taste: strong burnt peat with rosemary and floral influences. Strong fruity finish of apples, peaches, star fruit and kiwi. Water immediately calms the beast and brings out all the hidden notes. Thick caramel toffee with ripe Asian pears and cherries with a honey vanilla syrup. Taste becomes same as the nose with the peat moving to the background and adding a deep chocolate finish.