Tastes
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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.
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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 cask50.0 USD per Bottle
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Ardbeg Scorch (2021 Committee Release)
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed May 29, 2021 (edited August 13, 2022)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.180.0 USD per Bottle -
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.
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Garrison Brothers Balmorhea Texas Straight Bourbon
Bourbon — Texas, USA
Reviewed May 23, 2021 (edited July 23, 2021)Nose: Texas, light floral peach, heavy grain and rye. Almost maple syrup covered blueberries. Sweet vanilla and caramel Taste: oak. Heavy dense cedar smoke. Wood polish. Light fruity and spicy finish. Two trickles of water open up the nose tremendously. Floral honey, honeydew melon, peanut butter, very very light citrus zest. Toffee and candied ginger. Taste is strong fruit up front with oak and smoke taking over. More water gives more earthy and herbal notes. It’s a double barrel Texas whiskey. Expect intense oak. -
Nose: peach, heavy corn. Burnt caramel and toffee. Bit of light floral scent along with cinnamon and light dill. Taste: heavy corn and rye spice presence. Very very faint fruity floral in the back. Water really breaks in the palette. Sweet honey, melon, and light floral fills in resulting in a vanilla finish. Light fruits and tangerines come in as well. Wish I could give this more of a 3.85. There’s something there but it’s really hidden
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Laphroaig 10 Year Sherry Oak Finish
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed May 17, 2021 (edited June 5, 2021)Nose:classic dense laphroaig peat with heavy syrupy caramel and tobacco. light hint of lemon curd. Sea salt and almond syrup is also present. Light pears and nectarines, some dates and prunes as well Taste: Dates and a syrupy cherry flavor followed by the taste of Laphroaig. Water brings out a dense sweetness and maltiness, almost like a poppy seed roll with vanilla icing. Dates and raisins start to intensify as well. More water drags out the smoke finish and adds baking spices and sour lemon, with floral and herbal notes as well. The sherry flavor comes in as the whiskey opens up in the glass. To be honest the sherry doesn't translate much on the taste, its more of a mouthfeel / texture influence. I need to compare to non-finished bottlings. If you like the peat of laphroaig but the texture and density of Ardbeg Uigeadail then this is for you. If you prefer the lighter texture of regular laphroaig this will do you no favors.90.0 USD per Bottle -
Nose: heavily perfumed. Violets, dates, figs, raisins. Port wine / Madeira type notes. Pancake malt. Ginger. Light spices. Green apple. Fresh apricot. Caramel toffee glaze. Lemon zest. Light hay. Taste: sweet vanilla and caramel. Fruit cake. Heavy wine influence of some kind. Most of the nose is present on the taste. Water magnifies all the flavors and adds a bitter wrapper around everything80.0 USD per Bottle
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