Tastes

Nose: dense thick treacle almost burnt sugar. Burning hay and strong wood, but not overwhelming. Lemon, light floral bluebells, crisp pear and apple skin. Vanilla sweet cream also appears. Taste: heavy pear and peach with rye herbal notes coming in behind. Burnt vanilla sugary finish with a dense wildflower honey aftertaste. Tobacco also sneaks its way in. Taste is very light but has some much needed complexity.

Nose: apples, peaches, smallest hint of wintergreen and bubble gum. Milk chocolate, light tobacco. Sweet honey and caramel. It moves to a dense molasses and toffee. Taste: peaches explode up front followed by dense honey and light dry hay. Very dry finish of cinnamon and nutmeg with a hint of ginger. Water adds herbal and oak notes as well as sweet toffee and banana.

Nose: Very dickel like nose. nectarines, light wintergreen and light honey vanilla sweetness. light cinnamon and brown sugar. Dark red cherries and milk chocolate do show up eventually with a hint of tobacco. Taste: strong oak that goes into a very herbal dry grass / hay. It then transforms into hot cinnamon pancakes with maple syrup. The finish is very fruity and sweet with a vanilla honey aftertaste. Lemongrass, peaches, red apples and bitter plums as well. Banana sneaks in eventually as well. Water adds heavy corn and pie crust notes to the nose. It makes the taste overpowered with oak but also enhances the sweetness. Not your average bourbon for sure. Lots of different things going on that may be unattractive / divisive for some people.

Nose: dense rich caramel and jonagold apple. Does have that light Flinstones vitamins note. Black tea and light tobacco. Vanilla, peach and slight orange zest. Maple and brown sugar. Taste: dense oak explodes into intense caramel and fruit. Finishes with a strong oaky menthol. Lemon and peachy finish with a hint of cantalope. Brown sugar and vanilla show up on the tail of the finish as well with a hint of oaky treacle. Water brings out the sweetness and flintstones gummies while amplifying the fruit notes.

Nose: tropical fruits, papaya, orange, guava, lemon. Turns quickly into sweet vanilla cream and caramel with a light toffee background. Light pipe tobacco and oak give way to some malt. Taste: sour green apple immediately devolving into herbal notes with a vanilla, mint and bitter orange finish. Bright malt and caramel drizzled butter cookies peek out towards the finish as well. I also get a light coffee, chocolate raspberry note on the finish as well.

Nose: dense fruit cake, caramel, floral honey, apricot, blood orange, vanilla and light citrus. Rose water and light berry notes. Taste: intense bitter wormwood with cinnamon, nutmeg, and light cloves. Finish is fruity and honey with a hint of vanilla. Very sweet cherry and toffee.

Nose: extremely floral with deep red wine notes of cherry, blackberry, and smoked leather. Sugary vanilla, caramel, and burnt oak. Lemongrass and orange. It can coalesce into smoked meat with a sweet BBQ sauce, almost cola like. There is a light background layer of honey. Taste: densely sweet honey and vanilla with strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries. Tobacco, leather and shiitake mushrooms. Light honey and malt. Water brings out sharpness and oak with some buried fruit notes. The peat is extremely light, most of the dense and tobacco notes are from the wine cask

Nose: Ardbeg peat, light vanilla and grapefruit. Burnt pancakes. Caramel and apricots. Taste: intense peat and burnt oak. Very sweet peaches and vanilla candy. A hint of maple. Finishes with apple and cherry. As it sits in the glass it starts to get really sweet and the peat turns into more of a burnt bbq note. Water doesn’t seem to impact the whisky much. Not sure how much the extra char is doing here, but the bourbon is definitely adding much sweeter notes and it’s interesting seeing the peat interacting with it.

Nose: corn, vanilla, sweet caramel, light raspberry wraps itself around. Dark cherry cordial. Cognac and tobacco. Taste: sherry makes itself evident along with an intense oak and corn finish. Bit of smoked dark grapes. Water awakens the nose into a cognac with light bourbon notes. Intense grape and tobacco with an almondy syrupy back layer. Same for the palette. It really tastes like an mid-aged cognac with some bourbon notes stuffed in. Dark chocolate, very sweet vanilla cream. Light tobacco and grape finish.